2023-09-20 18:17:59
The Police reported that the car bomb was detected approximately 50 meters from the station.
Courtesy | The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, blamed the Central General Staff (EMC), the largest dissident of the FARC, for the explosion.
This Wednesday morning a car bomb was detonated near a Police station in the Colombian department of Cauca, in the southwest of the country, causing the death of two people.
The incident was recorded in the town of Timba, located in the municipality of Buenos Aires of the entity, at 07:15 in the morning [hora local].
The Police reported that the car bomb was detected approximately 50 meters from the station; In addition to the fatalities, two other people were injured.
In addition to the damage to the infrastructure of the Police office, the explosion affected a school, a hospital, some workshops and homes in the area.
At the moment, it is unknown which group was behind the attack. The governor of Cauca, Elías Larrahondo, declared to Caracol that the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Jaime Martínez front, a dissident of the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), have a presence in the area.
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, blamed the Central General Staff (EMC), the largest dissident in the FARC, for the explosion.
“The actions of the EMC in Cauca are their response to our offensive in the Micay valley where 70% of the coca leaf in Cauca is produced. Our objective remains. The Micay Valley will be the example of how an illicit economy is replaced by a legal one in favor of the peasantry,” said the president.
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