Blast near police station on Colombia’s border with Venezuela leaves 1 dead and 11 injured
Authorities said the blast was preliminarily blamed on the ELN and came amid a territorial fight over smuggling routes.
- On Tuesday, a car bomb exploded outside a police station in Los Patios, Colombia, killing one civilian and injuring 11 people near the Venezuela border in the Cucuta metropolitan area.
- Drug gangs and rebel groups have long disputed the region surrounding Cucuta, competing for smuggling routes into Venezuela while attacking the Colombian government for territorial control.
- Although a peace deal signed a decade ago between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces reduced violence, crime has swelled as smaller groups contest territory formerly occupied by the FARC.
- President Abelardo de la Espriella vowed to pursue those responsible for the attack, writing that "Colombia will not yield to terrorism." Police officers are believed to be among the wounded.
- Sworn into office in August, Espriella has pledged to tackle crime aggressively and recently canceled peace talks with rebel groups including the National Liberation Army, which officials blamed for earlier attacks.
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Jovem Pan NewsA car bomb attributed to the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla killed a civilian and left 11 other people injured in Colombia on Monday night (1st). The attack occurred in Los Patios, a municipality near the border with Venezuela, in the midst of the escalation of violence in the country. The vehicle exploded near midnight, next to a police station. The victim was a Venezuelan of 23 years, according to Colombian authorities. In an intervi…
Two policemen were among the wounded, the others being civilians, as was the one who was killed, a 23-year-old Venezuelan.
The area of Cúcuta has long been the subject of a dispute between drug cartels and rebel groups that are fighting over the control of smuggling routes to Venezuela.
Radio France Internationale
rtl.luCar bomb at Colombian police station kills one, injures 11
The attack on Monday in the department of Norte de Santander killed one civilian and injured eleven others, including two police officers, local officials said. It came shortly after President Abelardo de la Espriella's hard-right administration conducted an airstrike against guerrillas in the southern Amazonian department of Guaviare, killing 20 people. At around midnight, a stolen vehicle loaded with around 80 kilograms of explosives blew up n…
The terrorist attack on a police station in Los Patios, part of the metropolitan area of Cúcuta, is the first in the government of Abelardo de la Espriella
Bomb at police station kills 1, wounds 11 – The Horn News
At least one civilian was killed and eleven other people were injured after a car bomb exploded outside a police station in northeastern Colombia, officials said on Tuesday. The attack took place around midnight in Los Patios, a town on Colombia’s border with Venezuela that is also part of the... Read More The post Bomb at police station kills 1, wounds 11 appeared first on The Horn News - Proudly American, Fiercely Independent.
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