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Colombia: two attacks armed groups:
A trapped truck. Consequently, explosive drones, shots: the results of two attacks on Thursday by armed groups was brought to at least 18 dead and dozens of injured, showing a spectacular intensification of violence in Colombia.
This outbreak comes a year from the presidential election. Consequently, and it was marked in particular by the death on August 11 of the favorite of the right, Miguel Uibe, after an attack.
Thursday afternoon, a trapped truck exploded near an air base in Cali (southwest), the third city in the country. In addition, This left at least 6 people dead and 60 injured, according to the authorities. Similarly, Mayor Alejandro Eder denounced a narcoterroist attack
and asked for a militarization
of the city.
Images on social networks have shown several people on the ground. taken care of by colombia: two attacks armed groups the emergency services after the explosion, as well as a truck in flames, several damaged vehicles and many blown windows.
Members of the Colombian Security Forces inspect the place of an explosion in Cali on August 21, 2025.
Photo : Getty Images / AFP / IUSEF SAMIR ROJAS
Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez has appointed the armed group EMC. a dissident group of the FARC, as responsible, denouncing a terrorist attack […] unjustifiable colombia: two attacks armed groups against the Cali civilian population
.
This loose attack on civilians is a desperate reaction to the loss. of control of drug trafficking [dans la région].
Hector Fabio Bolanos, 65, a witness, told AFP to have heard A huge explosion noise near the air base
and seen many people injured on the ground.
There were deaths among people passing on the avenue
According to another witness. Alexis Atizabal, 40, who saw the windows of his workshop for making sketches shatter at the time of the explosion.
Several buildings and a nearby school have been evacuated.
The mayor announced the prohibition of truck traffic in the city and offered $ 10,000 of award for any information.
Terrorism will colombia: two attacks armed groups not defeat us
said the regional governor, Dilian Francisca Toro.
Colombia: two attacks armed groups
Police officers killed
In the morning. some 150 kilometers from Medellín, clashes and a drone attack on a helicopter targeting the police of the police also made many victims.
The results of these attacks were brought from 8 to 12 police officers killed. by Andrés Julián Rendón, the governor of the Antioquia region (northwest) on Thursday evening.
A police officer told AFP that attackers had hacked
Police supervising a group responsible for eradicating Coca plantations.
Images shared on social networks have shown the helicopter flying over the region, followed by detonation and its fall.
This attack was awarded to the Guericilleros Calarca group. This guerrilla warfare, which bears the war name of his leader, comes from a split of the EMC.
In power since colombia: two attacks armed groups 2022. himself a former Guerillero, the leftist president Gustavo Petro attempted to relaunch peace talks with most of the armed groups that operate in Colombia, six years after the historical agreement concluded with the FARC. But most of them failed or are in a standstill.
In 2023, the EMC had supported such talks, but its leader, Ivan Mordisco, had left the negotiation table a year later.
In June, a series of attacks had killed five civilians and two police officers in the southwest of the country. It had been claimed by EMC.
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