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Colombia: Terrorist Attack Leaves 6 Dead and over 70 Wounded

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At least six civilians were killed and 71 other people were wounded following an explosion Thursday at the Marco Fidel Suárez Colombian Air Force Base in Cali, caused by an attack with cylinder bombs thrown from a truck, which missed the military facilities and hit a nearby street, damaging homes and vehicles and injuring people, including passengers on a bus.

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On Saturday afternoon, a Colombian supervisory judge ruled the incarceration of Walter Esteban Yonda Ipía and Carlos Steven Obando Aguirre, for his alleged involvement in the terrorist attack that took place on Thursday in the vicinity of the Marco Fidel Suárez Military Aviation School in Cali, Valle del Cauca, which left six people dead and more than 70 injured.The Attorney General's Office handed over the material evidence to charge the suspec…

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The streets surrounding the Marco Fidel Suárez air base, in the middle of the urban area of the northeastern Cali, were bathed in glass and rubble. This Thursday, around three o’clock in the afternoon, unknown people threw two cylinders bomb at the entrance of the military complex from a truck. They exploded outside, in the midst of the civilian population that lives and travels through the neighborhoods La Base and Villa Colombia. The suspicion…

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Two guerrillas arrested after an attack in Colombia with a truck bomb, which left six civilians dead and more than 60 injured, face charges for homicide and other crimes, the local prosecutor’s office reported this Saturday. The Colombian Public Prosecutor’s Office reported on social network X that it managed to charge Walter Yonda and Carlos Obando Aguirre, members of the Jaime Martínez Front, a member of the Central General Staff (EMC), as all…

Colombia announced on Friday that it was launching a military offensive against rebels believed to be responsible for an attack on police near Medellin and a bombing in Cali the day before that killed 19 people, including civilians. Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez traveled to Cali (southwest) on Friday, where at least six civilians were killed and more than 60 others were injured when a truck bomb exploded near an air base. Without giving details…

President Gustavo Petro confirmed that there are two detainees for the attacks in Cali, one of the main cities in Colombia, where more than 70 people are already injured.The post Number of deaths due to attacks in Colombia rises to 20; Petro confirms two arrests first appeared on SinEmbargo MX.Read the full text in embargo.mx

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ADN 40 broke the news in on Thursday, August 21, 2025.
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