Terrible news. It’s starting to read that some 35,000 people have been killied in Colombia in the last decade in the ongoing civil war.
Six dead in Bogota car blast
At least six people have been killed and another 12 injured in a car bomb explosion in the Colombian capital, Bogota. The bomb went off as police approached a suspicious car. Police chief General Jorge Dario Castro said two of those killed were police officers. The explosion took place in a commercial area of central Bogota at about 0800 local time (1300 GMT). It is not clear who was behind the attack.
Local residents had alerted police to a suspicious car - reportedly a jeep - parked near some shops, police said. They said the bomb exploded when police approached the car, killing two police officers and four civilians. The blast shattered the windows of nearby shops, which were starting to open up for business. “We all ran out and looked around. There was smoke everywhere,” Teodora Lagos, a cleaning lady working in a nearby bank, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. “I saw four dead people, including the woman who sells coffee here,” she added.