Southwestern Colombia, Colombia, was shocked by a series of explosions and shootings near the police station that killed at least four people, according to police.
The attacks attacked Cali – the third largest city in the country – and nearby towns of Corinto, El Bordo and Jamundi, targeting police stations and other municipal buildings with car and motorcycle bombs, rifle bombs, alleged drones.
A few days later Senator Miguel Uribe Tabi, who attempts to assassinate the president’s promising A 15-year-old killer allegedly attacked an assassinated past country at an election rally in the capital Bogota.
In Colinto, an AFP reporter witnessed the wreckage of a car that exploded, with a hot and heavily damaged municipal building exploded next to it.
“Two police officers died and many of the public died,” Triana said.
Police later said at least two of the civilians were killed and 12 were injured.
It is not clear who was behind the attack, but military and police spokespersons blamed the strike on the North African Rams (FARC-EMC), which is well known in the region. The group is led by a former member of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), which left the group after signing a peace agreement with the government in 2016.
Colombia on the edge
Triana suggested that the attack could be related to the third anniversary of the killing of Leider Johani Noscue, the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in Colombia, the ‘Mayimbu’.
Just three days after Uribe’s attempt to assassinate, the bomb attack put Colombia further into trouble.
Uribe, a member of the opposition Conservative Democratic Center Party, After a successful initial surgery On Sunday. The hospital said on Tuesday that he remained stable but was in critical condition.
“We continue to take the necessary actions to mitigate the impact of the injury,” the Santa Fe Foundation Hospital added in a statement.
Thousands of people walked up to the streets of major cities, lit candles, prayed and expressed their anger at the assassination attempt. Authorities say they are investigating who was attacking Uribe. Left President Gustavo Petro, who vowed to bring peace to the country, said on Sunday that he ordered additional security from opposition leaders to deal with more threats.
Many Colombians feared returning to the bloody violence of the 1980s and 1990s, when cartel attacks and political assassinations often took place, sowing terror across the country.
The Colombian government has been working to curb violence in urban and rural areas as several rebel groups attempt to take over the territory abandoned after the peace agreement between the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia and the government.
Peace negotiations between the factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in Colombia and the government were damaged after a series of attacks on indigenous communities.
