Car bomber kills 10 in Colombia police academy attack

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-blast/car-bomb-at-colombian-police-academy-kills-nine-injures-24-idUSKCN1PB1VE?il=0&utm_source=reddit.com

BOGOTA (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded at a police academy in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding over 50 in an attack that prompted fears of a return to the country’s violent past.

Authorities said the car broke through checkpoints into the grounds of the General Santander School and exploded, shattering windows of apartments earby. It was the deadliest attack in Bogota since the government struck a 2016 peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebel group. President Ivan Duque caled the explosion a “crazy terrorist act” against unarmed cadets and said he had ordered police and the military to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. “Colombians have never yielded to terrorism, we have always defeated it. This will not be an exception,” he told a news conference at the schoolin the south of the city.

Investigators had identified the car’s driver as Jose Aldemar Rojas Rodriguez, who was among the dead, said Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez.

He said the vehicle, a gray Nissan Patrol SUV, was carrying 80 kilograms (176 lb) of the high explosive pentolite, which has been used in the past by Colombian guerrillas.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack and Humberto Martinez said investigators were searching for its “intellectual authors.”

The Defense Ministry said in a statement that 10 people were killed and 54 wounded. Nine of the deceased were cadets at the academy, police said.

The attack occurred at the exact moment when the authorities were doing their opening ceremony with cadets.

And two videos (Both at spanish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyYopHFxGxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5REjv-CUs