A 12-year-old boy was killed and more than 30 others, including at least six children, were injured Saturday night in bomb attack in front of a police station in Bogota, authorities announced yesterday Sunday.
“One of the seven children injured, aged less than 12, died in the early hours of the morning,” Claudia Lopez, the mayor of the Colombian capital, said via Twitter yesterday.
“Unfortunately we have a five-year-old girl who is in a very serious condition,” he added, explaining that the child had a head injury.
General Eliezer Kamacho Jimenez, Bogota police chief, gave a new report, which put the number of wounded at 30.
Two police officers, who were injured in the attack, are in a “stable” condition.
The children were “playing” near the police station when the explosion took placeexplained Ms. Lopez, explaining that this was the second such attack since the beginning of the month in the popular district of Ciudad Bolivar.
The explosives were placed in a suitcase in front of the police station and “fired from a distance over the phone,” Defense Minister Diego Molano told the media.
An “identical mechanism” had been used on March 5 in the attack on another police station in the same neighborhood, the minister added.
Authorities offered $ 80,000 ($ 72,800) for any information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the attack the day before yesterday.
“I heard the bomb blast, I started running to escape the danger. “I lost my hearing, my glasses, I was stunned,” said Leonardo Boccanegra, who was at a nearby store when the blast occurred.
In addition to the destruction of part of the police station, about sixty other buildings in the area were damaged.
Colombian President Ivan Duque, whose term ends in August – he has no right to be re-elected – expressed his “deep sorrow” via Twitter.
Colombia experiences resurgence of armed violence: rebels of former Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) rebels reject the 2016 peace agreement; members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) formally in Colombia; the heirs of far-right paramilitaries who were officially disarmed and disbanded in 2006; and other organizations that are primarily involved in drug trafficking, such as the Clan del Golfo.
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