{"id":49267,"date":"2026-04-26T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49267"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:04:28","slug":"colombia-explosives-attack-kills-13-police-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49267","title":{"rendered":"Colombia explosives attack kills 13, police source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least 13 people were killed and 17 wounded in an explosives \u200battack in western Colombia on Saturday, a police \u200csource told Reuters, in violence authorities have blamed on dissidents of the FARC guerrilla group.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place on the Pan-American \u200bHighway in the El Tunel area of Cajibio \u200bmunicipality, about 35 km (22 miles) from Popayan, the capital \u2060of Cauca province, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Cauca Governor Octavio \u200bGuzman said on X the attack was one of several \u200bcriminal actions reported in the province on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Fue activado un artefacto explosivo en la v\u00eda Panamericana, en el sector de El T\u00fanel, Cajib\u00edo, en un ataque indiscriminado contra la poblaci\u00f3n civil que, de manera preliminar, deja 7 civiles muertos y m\u00e1s de 20 heridos de gravedad. Es una tragedia que nos desgarra como\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/4BQ0r6CnUc<br \/>\n\u2014 OCTAVIO GUZM\u00c1N (@OctavioGuzmanGu) April 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Clashes in Colombia between guerrilla groups leave 27 dead, sources say<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cauca cannot continue to face this barbarity alone. We are facing a terrorist escalation that \u200bdemands immediate responses. We demand forceful, sustained and effective \u200baction from the national government in the face of the grave \u200cpublic \u2060order crisis we are experiencing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential candidate Paloma Valencia, a member of the opposition right-wing Democratic Center party who is from Cauca, called the attack &#8220;terrorism&#8221; carried out \u200bby the dissident \u200bFARC faction, \u2060which rejected a 2016 peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Gustavo Petro&#8217;s government cannot continue minimizing the violence \u200bor dismantling the state,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We demand \u200bimmediate action, \u2060full backing for our Armed Forces and police, and concrete results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Petro, a former rebel himself whose term as president \u2060is \u200bnearing an end, has pursued a &#8220;total \u200bpeace&#8221; policy with guerrillas through negotiations and intermittent ceasefires.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 13 people were killed and 17 wounded in an explosives \u200battack in western Colombia on Saturday, a police \u200csource told Reuters, in violence authorities have blamed on dissidents of the FARC guerrilla group. The attack took place on the Pan-American \u200bHighway in the El Tunel area of Cajibio \u200bmunicipality, about 35 km (22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}