A minimum of 17 folks have been killed after a automobile bombing and an assault on a police helicopter in Colombia, officers have mentioned.
Authorities within the southwest metropolis of Cali mentioned a automobile loaded with explosives detonated close to a army aviation faculty, killing 5 folks and injuring greater than 30.
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Authorities mentioned a minimum of 12 died within the assault on a helicopter transporting personnel to an space in Antioquia in northern Colombia, the place they have been to destroy coca leaf crops – the uncooked materials used within the manufacturing of cocaine.
Antioquia governor Andres Julian mentioned a drone attacked the helicopter because it flew over coca leaf crops.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro attributed each incidents to dissidents of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
He mentioned the plane was focused in retaliation for a cocaine seizure that allegedly belonged to the Gulf Clan.
Who’re FARC, and are they nonetheless energetic?
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist guerrilla organisation, was the most important of the nation’s insurgent teams, and grew out of peasant self-defence forces.
It was shaped in 1964 because the army wing of the Colombian Communist Get together, finishing up a sequence of assaults towards political and financial targets.
In 2016, after greater than 50 years of civil warfare, FARC rebels and the Colombian authorities signed a peace deal.
It formally ceased to be an armed group the next 12 months – however some small dissident teams rejected the settlement and refused to disarm.
In accordance with a report by Colombia’s Reality Fee in 2022, preventing between authorities forces, FARC, and the militant group Nationwide Liberation Military had killed round 450,000 folks between 1985 and 2018.
Each FARC dissidents and members of the Gulf Clan function in Antioquia.
It comes as a report from the United Nations Workplace on Medication and Crime discovered that coca leaf cultivation is on the rise in Colombia.
The world underneath cultivation reached a document 253,000 hectares in 2023, in response to the UN’s newest accessible report.
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