CUCUTA, Colombia: A vehicle bomb burst in a military base in the northwestern town of Cucuta injured 36 people Tuesday, officials said, attributing the assault to ELN guerillas.
The first notion is that members of the National Liberation Army (ELN), the nation’s last recognized guerrilla band, were behind the attack, Defense ministry Diego Molano stated, since he proclaimed that the”terrorist activity ” Involvement of FARC guerrillas that refused to sign up a 2016 peace deal with the authorities can also be”an issue of evaluation,” the ministry added.
Unknown individuals posing as public officers drove to the foundation board a white Toyota van Tuesday day, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Then they set off two explosions from the car.
Colombian President Ivan Duque tweeted he traveled into the scene of the explosion”to directly manage the circumstance.” At 2019, Duque broke off discussions ELN after a car bomb attack on a cadet college in southern Bogota that killed 22 pupils.
Cucuta, at northeastern Colombia close to the boundary with Venezuela, is the capital of Norte de Santander department, a place at which the ELN is busy and ex-FARC fighters, remnants of a demobilized Maoist insurgency, along with many criminal gangs.
The numerous armed groups struggle for control of 41,000 hectares of coca leaf in the area, in addition to management of a significant smuggling road into Venezuela and the Caribbean.
Colombia is in the middle of its worst outbreak of violence as the signing of this peace agreement with FARC, that had been Latin America’s strongest insurgency.
The nation continues to suspect with all the battle that, over almost 60 decades, claimed over nine million sufferers between the deceased, lost and homeless.