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1 policeman dead, 2 injured in southwest Colombia attack

by Marguerite Cawley June 10, 2011

Colombia News - Farc attack

An attack by armed men killed one policeman and gravely injured two others in southwest Colombia’s Cauca department, local media reported Friday.

The men apparently shot at town police in a motorcycle drive-by in the Morales municipality, in the north-central region of the department.

Newspaper El Pais reported that members of the FARC‘s 6th Front are believed to be responsible for the incident, while other sources stated that the source of the attack is not yet clear.

The two injured policemen were transferred to a medical center, and officials reported that the ambulance driver was also injured.

RCN Radio reported three separate homicides occurring in the department in the past 24 hours, including the murder of one farmer in Morales, also presumably by the FARC. It was not clear whether the two incidents are related.

In April, it was reported that a combination of armed struggles between security forces, guerrillas and drug trafficking gangs has made Cauca one of the most dangerous departments in the country.

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