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Mobius report 10/2022 – New ELN Dump Truck VBIED Mortar Firing Platform, Tibu, Colombia

February 1, 20221 min readTerrogence Intelligence Team

On February 8, 2022, Colombian security forces neutralized a dump truck VBIED in Tibú, in Norte de Santander, in northern Colombia, bordering Venezuela. The truck concealed a mortar firing platform with numerous improvised mortars of different diameters, as well as different types of high-trajectory ammunition.

The VBIED was fitted with an electronic initiation system and was neutralized and disassembled before being destroyed in a controlled detonation. The dump truck VBIED mortar firing platform was similar to other VBIEDs utilized for the same clandestine purpose by the ELN in the passing month.

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