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‘I always hear them before I see them’: Drones strike fear in Colombia
Key takeaways
- Increasingly, armed groups in Colombia are turning to cheap, widely available drones to fight from a distance.
- xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Whenever a low, bumblebee-like thrum cuts through the quiet of Sandra Montoya’s home near Tibu in Colombia’s Catatumbo region, the sound stiffens her body.
- The noise always emerges from a small mountain behind her home, part of a tree-quilted landscape stitched with winding rivers along Colombia’s border with Venezuela.
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Increasingly, armed groups in Colombia are turning to cheap, widely available drones to fight from a distance. What is the toll on civilians?
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Whenever a low, bumblebee-like thrum cuts through the quiet of Sandra Montoya’s home near Tibu in Colombia’s Catatumbo region, the sound stiffens her body. She instinctively reaches for her young son.
The noise always emerges from a small mountain behind her home, part of a tree-quilted landscape stitched with winding rivers along Colombia’s border with Venezuela.
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