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At Least 18 Killed in Colombia Bomb, Drone Attacks by Ex-FARC Groups
- At least 18 people were killed and dozens injured in Colombia due to coordinated attacks involving a drone and a car bomb, attributed to dissident factions of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia .
- A drone strike downed a police helicopter in Antioquia, killing 12 officers, while a car bomb exploded near a military facility in Cali, killing six.
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated that both attacks were caused by FARC dissidents who rejected the 2016 peace agreement.
- Petro announced plans to classify both FARC dissidents and the Gulf Clan as terrorists for their ongoing threat to public safety.
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When Colombia still did not recover from the attack and subsequent death of presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, of the right-wing opposition party Centro Democrático, the attacks in Amalfi, Antioquia, and in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca, relive...
In Colombia, at least 18 people have been killed in an attack and an attack on security forces.
Attacks increase pressure on the government of Gustavo Petro, who described what happened as "a day of death"
In Colombia soldiers and policemen were killed in two attacks. The government sees the guilt of guerrillas. In the population memories of earlier spirals of violence are awakened.
In two attacks in Colombia, several policemen die. A Farc splinter group is said to be behind the attacks.
Two attacks by armed groups killed 18 people on Thursday, forcing the government to deploy military forces, a dramatic upsurge in violence that awakens the trauma of the past.
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