The death toll from a Colombian highway explosion blamed on cocaine-trafficking guerrillas has increased to 21, the authorities said on Monday, in the country’s bloodiest attack on civilians in decades and just days before elections.
The death toll from a Colombian highway explosion blamed on cocaine-trafficking guerrillas has increased to 21, the authorities said on Monday, in the country’s bloodiest attack on civilians in decades and just ahead of elections.
According to Defence Minister Pedro Sanchez, 21 people were killed and 56 injured in Saturday’s blast on a major highway. Saturday’s blast in the southwestern Cauca region, which the government blamed on militants opposed to a decade-long peace process, comes one month before Colombia’s presidential elections on May 31.
A military spokesman told the media that at least 31 guerrilla strikes were carried out in the southwest over the weekend, showing a significant increase in violence ahead of the vote. Insecurity is a key subject in the race to replace Colombia’s first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro.
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