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Colombian Police Deactivate Bombs Near US Embassy
Colombian police deactivated on Friday morning two bombs near both the US embassy and the Attorney General's office in the capital city, hours after two bomb blasts killed at least four people and wounded 25 others, police said.
Colombia police said the two devices were hidden in a sewer near the U.S. embassy and the offices of the Attorney General.
Colombian authorities set up roadblocks in many parts of the city and intensified the search for explosives throughout Bogota after the explosion of two bombs in the capital earlier in the day.
The first explosion took place at 8:10 a.m. local time and the second one, 10 minutes later in front of the National University. At least four people died and 25 were injured.
Bogota's Mayor Antanas Mockus said that "a terrorist" was among the four dead.
Colombian authorities did not make any conjectures on the responsibility for the attack, nor on the kind of the explosives used.
On Monday, a team of Colombian bomb disposal experts deactivated a bomb hidden in a car in front of the building of the Colombian communist journal Voz, in the Teusaquillo area of Bogota.
Friday's explosions are the third bloody attack this month in Colombia. On May 17, a bomb blast killed eight people and wounded 182 others in Medellin, capital of Antioquia. On May 4, another bomb car exploded, killing four and wounding 32 in Cali, capital of the Valle del Cauca state.
Police attributed the Medellin explosion to La Terraza, a powerful Medellin-based organized crime group that has been hit by police actions.
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