Ten Colombian soldiers were killed in an ambush on the left rebel group, the FARC, the army blamed.
The army said it was the deadliest attack this year.
A military spokesman said the rebels ignited explosives as two vehicles in the southern province of Nariño, in the vicinity of Colombian border Ecuador were travelling.
The local Governor said that the soldiers had used to improve security before regional elections next week.
Gen Alejandro Navas, the head of the Colombian armed forces, told reporters: "Reinforcements come." "We have started to chase these bandits who flee."
Left rebels of the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) and National Liberation Army (ELN) are often carry out attacks before elections.
On October 30 Colombians elect Governors, mayors and city councils across the country in elections already marred by violence.
Left guerrillas, criminal gangs and former right-wing paramilitaries are all active in the Nariño region and engage in a battle for control of the lucrative Pacific Coast drug trafficking routes.
The Marxist-inspired FARC has been working since the early 1960s.
It was severely weakened by a military offensive in 2002, but stays on the attacks, partly due to the means, that its involvement in the trafficking of illegal drugs.
Source: theindependentbd.com
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