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Police: Death Toll From Colombia Car Bomb Rises to 21

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BOGOTA mdashnbsp Colombian police on Friday said 21 people were killed and 68 injured after a car bomb exploded at a police academy in Bogota in an att
BOGOTA
Colombian police on Friday said 21 people were killed and 68 injured after a car bomb exploded at a police academy in Bogota in an attack that prompted fears of a return to the country’s violent past.
In Thursday’s attack, which the government described as an act of terrorism, the car broke through checkpoints into the grounds of the General Santander School before it detonated, shattering windows of apartments nearby.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the blast, the deadliest since the government struck a peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebel group in 2016.
President Ivan Duque called the explosion a ‘crazy terrorist act’ against unarmed cadets and ordered police and the military to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

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