Authorities say a bomb blast has
killed a woman and two children and seriously wounded three more
civilians in a southern town near the traditional stronghold of
Colombia’s main leftist rebel group.
The acting mayor of San
Vicente del Caguan, Arcenio Novoa, says the bomb exploded Tuesday in
the town’s central square. He says it appeared directed at a police
patrol.
Novoa said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, were suspected.
San Vicente, located in the southern Caqueta department, hosted failed peace talks from 1998-2002 between the FARC and the government of then-President Andres Pastrana.
Pastrana
had demilitarized a Switzerland-sized swath of territory to facilitate
the talks, which fell apart in large part because the rebels continued
to kidnap and run drug. (AP)