The arsenal of 33 guns, an M60 machine gun, grenades, more than 30,000 bullets, and uniforms was being transported in two vehicles found abandoned in the Narino province in southwestern Colombia.
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“The confiscated arsenal constitutes one of the most important blows in recent years,” national police Director General Henry Armando Sanabria told reporters on Monday. “With this, we avoid the strengthening of an armed group.”
The guns — made in the United States, Israel, and Russia — had previously been used, and it remained to be established if they had been purchased on the black market or stolen from the military during attacks, Sanabria said.
He added that it was up to the government to decide if the movement of the arsenal constitutes a violation of the dissidents’ ceasefire with the government.