Two Colombian soldiers were killed
in clashes with leftist ELN rebels,
in the country's second largest rebel
group,the military said,
The army accused gurrillas from
the National Liberation Army (ELN)
of lunching an attack in the northeastern
town of Cubara near the Venezuelan
border,
Official said the insurgents on Saturday
attacked soldiers who were trying to
dismantle oil infrastructure that the ELN
is building in the area.
During the security and defense operation,
our soldiers were brutally murdered"the
army said in a statement Last week ,Colombian
President Juan Manuel Santos ordered
his government to step up an offensive
against the group after the rebels,
showed off a soldier's severed leg,
apparently blown off by an anti-personel
mine,
There are about 2,500 fighters in ELN,
Colombia's second largest rebel group after
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) have been at war with the Colombian
government since the mid 1960s
The long -running unrest has left more than
200,000 people dead ,despite dragging peace
talks between the government and FARC,
The ELN said in June that it had begun exploratory
discussions with the government in bid to lunch
negotiations in parallel with Bogota's negotiations with the FARC,
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