Colombia President Says Senator Targeted in Shooting
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Bogotá, Colombia.The vehicle of a Colombian senator was shot at on Tuesday by rebels of the FARC's extinct guerrilla in a conflictive region of the south-west of the country.After security alerts, official senator Alexander López was traveling in another car later in his usual vehicle, which was shot by more than ten men on a highway in the department of Cauca.The senator was moving from the city of Popayán to Cali, after attending a rally of le…
Just two weeks before the presidential election in Colombia, President Gustavo Petro said that a senator's motorcade was under attack from the ruling party. Petro said in online service X that the attack on the heavily secured column of Senator Alexander López occurred on Tuesday in Cauca in the south-west of the country.The left-wing head of state responsible for the attack was the leader of a faction of the former guerrilla organization Farc."…
Political tension escalated again in Colombia after official senator Alexander López was the victim of an armed attack on the Pan American road, between Popayán and Cali; President Gustavo Petro initially denounced an alleged kidnapping attempt and claimed that armed men fired at one of the trucks in the legislator's security scheme.
Senator Alexander López detailed that a group of armed men, allegedly members of the FARC, fired rifle bursts at one of the vans in their security scheme as they moved along the Pan American road between Popayán and Cali, in the south-west of the country.
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A convoy carrying a senator and a mayor was fired upon by members of drug gangs on Tuesday, the president writes.
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