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Police claims it prevented FARC attacks in Bogotá

by Adriaan Alsema January 8, 2009
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Colombian police say they seized 59 mortars that FARC guerrillas were to use in attacks in Bogotá.

According to authorities, the mortars were found in Usme, a village less than ten miles south of the capital.

The hand-made explosives were made by the 21st front of the FARC and to be sent to urban militias or other fronts of the Marxist guerrillas, Police said.

The seizure prevented possible attacks on Bogotá, said colonel Yesid Vásquez of the Police.

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