Colombia highway bombing leaves 14 dead amid ‘wave of attacks’

At least 14 people were killed and at least 38 wounded, including five children, after a bomb tore apart a busy road in southwestern Colombia, according to local authorities.

The incident was part of a “wave” of terror attacks this weekend, Colombian officials also said, as deadly violence resurges in the country.

“An explosive device was detonated on the Pan-American Highway, in the El Túnel sector of Cajibío, in an indiscriminate attack against the civilian population,” said Cauca Governor Octavio Guzmán in a post on X.

Guzmán later added in an update that Colombia’s Minister of Defense Pedro Sánchez was at the scene of the explosion to help “coordinate rescue…

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