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Thursday, July 10, 2025

At least four dead in Colombia after multiple blasts outside police stations in Cali

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
29 days ago
20250610
A body lies in the street, covered by a sheet, after a bomb explosion in Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

A body lies in the street, covered by a sheet, after a bomb explosion in Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Santiago Saldarriaga

At least four peo­ple were killed in Colom­bia on Tues­day as rebel groups det­o­nat­ed bombs near po­lice sta­tions in the city of Cali and the neigh­bour­ing Cau­ca province, ac­cord­ing to au­thor­i­ties.

Mil­i­tary and po­lice spokes­peo­ple blamed the at­tacks on the FARC-EMC, a group led by for­mer mem­bers of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Armed Forces of Colom­bia who broke away from the group af­ter it signed a peace deal with the gov­ern­ment in 2016.

Au­thor­i­ties said the rebels placed bombs in cars and mo­tor­cy­cles that were parked near po­lice sta­tions.

The at­tacks on the po­lice sta­tions come just days af­ter Miguel Uribe, a con­ser­v­a­tive pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, was shot dur­ing a ral­ly in Bo­go­ta. Au­thor­i­ties say they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing who was be­hind the at­tack on Uribe, who is in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion in hos­pi­tal in Bo­go­ta.

Colom­bia’s gov­ern­ment has strug­gled to con­tain vi­o­lence in ur­ban and rur­al ar­eas as sev­er­al rebel groups try to take over ter­ri­to­ry aban­doned by the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Armed Forces of Colom­bia fol­low­ing its peace deal with the gov­ern­ment.

Peace talks be­tween the FARC-EMC fac­tion and the gov­ern­ment broke down last year af­ter a se­ries of at­tacks on in­dige­nous com­mu­ni­ties.

The gov­ern­ment is cur­rent­ly hold­ing talks with an­oth­er fac­tion of the group, that is led by com­man­der Luis Al­ber­to Al­ban, known al­so as Mar­cos Calar­ca. —BO­GO­TA, Colom­bia (AP)


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