BOGOTA, Colombia — Not less than 4 folks have been killed in Colombia on Tuesday as insurgent teams detonated bombs close to police stations within the city of Cali and the neighboring Cauca province, in accordance with authorities.
Army and police spokespeople blamed the assaults on the FARC-EMC, a bunch led by former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia who broke away from the group after it signed a peace cope with the federal government in 2016.
Authorities stated the rebels positioned bombs in automobiles and bikes that have been parked close to police stations.
The assaults on the police stations come simply days after Miguel Uribe, a conservative presidential candidate, was shot throughout a rally in Bogota. Authorities say they’re investigating who was behind the assault on Uribe, who’s in a essential situation in hospital in Bogota.
Colombia’s authorities has struggled to comprise violence in city and rural areas as a number of insurgent teams attempt to take over territory deserted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia following its peace cope with the federal government.
Peace talks between the FARC-EMC faction and the federal government broke down last year after a sequence of assaults on indigenous communities.
The federal government is at the moment holding talks with one other faction of the group, that’s led by commander Luis Alberto Alban, recognized additionally as Marcos Calarca.