▲ Corinto, Colombia where a car bomb attack occurred
Dozens of people were injured in Colombia in a car bomb attack, believed to be attributable to the remnants of the former rebel Colombian Armed Revolutionary Army (FARC).
On the 27th local time, Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano said 43 people were injured in a car explosion in Corinto, Cauca, western Colombia the day before.
The place where the vehicle exploded was near Corinto City Hall and the police station, and 11 of the injured were public officials.
The exterior walls of nearby buildings, such as the city hall, were also damaged.
Minister Molano said the attack was "an act of indiscriminate terror," and pointed behind an armed gang consisting of the remnants of the oldest rebels, FARC.
FARC is a left-wing armed group formed in 1964. In Colombia, a civil war involving left-wing rebels such as FARC, government troops, and right-wing militias continued over the past half century, killing about 260,000 people.
Although the civil war ended with the historic peace agreement signed by the Colombian government and FARC in 2016, FARC has also disappeared into history, but some members of the organization refused to disarm and continue to commit drug crimes.
(Photo = AFP, Yonhap News)