Truck explodes outside Colombia police base, injuring 11 officers and killing a dog
Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez blamed the ELN and offered a reward of more than $64,000 for information leading to arrests.
- On Saturday, a truck packed with explosives detonated next to a Colombian police station near the border with Venezuela, injuring at least 11 people six days before President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella's inauguration.
- President-Elect Abelardo will succeed Gustavo Petro on Aug 7, marking a political shift as the incoming administration plans to end unsuccessful peace negotiations with Guerrilla groups. Espriella has promised intensified operations against drug trafficking organizations.
- George Quintero, security secretary for the department of Norte and Santander where the attack occurred, told reporters eight police officers and three civilians were injured in the "atrocious, violent act." Authorities are offering a reward equivalent to more than $32,000 for information.
- Espriella's inauguration will involve around 11,000 soldiers and police officers carrying out operations on land, at sea and in the air. The ceremony was moved to Cali, a region plagued by clashes between drug trafficking gangs and Guerrilla groups.
- Outgoing President Gustavo Petro traveled to Havana to discuss the United States' "policy of strangulation" against Cuba, while the incoming administration plans to forge a military alliance with the United States and Israel to combat escalating violence.
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At least eight policemen and three other people were injured this Saturday by the explosion of a car bomb near the police command of the Department of Norte de Santander, in the Colombian city of Cúcuta, bordering Venezuela, which was followed by other detonations. The wounded are “eight policemen and three private individuals,” he said. ... Continue reading “VIDEO At least eleven wounded after terrorist attack in the Colombian city of Cúcuta” …
Authorities attribute the attack to the ELN - The country is facing a new outbreak of violence a few days before the inauguration of the new president
An attack with explosives in a police compound of the northeastern Colombian border with Venezuela left 11 injured on Saturday and a police dog dead, in an act that the authorities awarded to the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN). The incident occurred early in the morning at a police commando in Cúcuta, in the department of Norte de Santander, when uniformed men completed their turn and near the place detonated a suitable vehicle…
(New York = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Ji-heon = On the 1st (local time), at a police building in Cúcuta, a border city in northwestern Colombia, an attack believed to be the work of armed rebel forces...
At least 11 wounded left the explosion of a truck bomb on Saturday in northeastern Colombia, near the border with Venezuela, six days before the inauguration of President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, who strongly condemned the attack.
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