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Bomb blast leaves 7 dead, 52 injured in Colombia
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 15 - 08 - 2008

A bomb allegedly detonated by leftist rebels killed
seven people and injured 52 others in the Colombian town of Ituango,
provincial authorities said Friday, according to dpa.
The bomb was set off by alleged members of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC) late Thursday in the town's main square,
said Luis Alfredo Ramos, governor of the north-western Colombian
province of Antioquia.
The square was full of people attending a party there at the time.
Ramos said 17 of the injured were in serious condition and had
been taken to hospitals in provincial capital Medellin early Friday.
No one had claimed responsibility for the attack by Friday, but
police said a man known as "El Pajaro" (the bird) was arrested soon
after the blast. He is an alleged member of FARC and is suspected of
planting the bomb.
Colombian Army Commander, General Mario Montoya, said
reinforcements were sent to Ituango early Friday, and expressed no
doubt that FARC was behind the attack.
"They are out of a political discourse, and that is why they turn
to terrorism," Montoya said.
Colombian authorities have blamed FARC for several bomb attacks in
recent weeks, in Bogota and elsewhere in the country. They believe
the attacks are a response to the refusal of store owners to give
into extortion demands.
FARC have been fighting the Colombian state since 1964. They are
thought to have been considerably weakened in recent years, due to
the relentless action of the country's security forces under
conservative President Alvaro Uribe.
The leftist rebel group was believed to have some 18,000 men and
women in 2002, when they controlled substantial areas in the remote
parts of the Andean country. However, they currently appear to have
been pushed back into the mountains and the jungle, with an estimated
9,000 fighters.
In recent months, they lost three of the members of their seven-
member leadership, including founder and boss Manuel Marulanda.
The group's most high-profile hostage, former Colombian
presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, was freed alongside 14
other hostages by Colombia's security forces in a non-violent
operation last month.


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