Colombian guerrilla fighters killed two police officers and two other people in separate gun and bomb attacks that injured at least seven in the country’s troubled southwest, officials said.
Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez pinned an attack in the town of Morales, in the Cauca department, on Central General Staff (EMC) rebels who had rejected a peace deal the FARC Marxist guerrilla group signed with the government in 2016.
EMC militants opened fire and set off cylinder bombs at a police station in Morales, killing two officers and two other people in the prison holding cells in what Velasquez labeled a “terrorist attack.”
Three other officers were injured.
The army said it had sent 100 soldiers to the town, where Police Director William Salamanca said more explosive devices have been found in the streets.
The police station in ruins, with multiple bullet marks in its facade — an image reminiscent of the deadly raids of the now-extinct FARC in the 1990s.
