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| Eight dead in car bomb attack at Colombian police school |
| 2019-01-18 |
| [PULSE.NG] A car kaboom on a police cadet training school in the Colombian capital Bogota left at least eight people dead and 10 injured on Thursday, the defense ministry said. The attack happened at the General Francisco de Paula Santander Officer's School in the south of Bogota during a promotion ceremony for cadets. Fanny Contreras, the armed forces' health inspector, told local radio the car "entered (the school compound) suddenly, almost hitting the police and then there was the kaboom." Early images from City TV showed ambulances traveling through the area close to the school in the south of Bogota. "All Colombians reject terrorism and we're united in fighting it," President Ivan Duque tweeted. Vowing to "bring to justice" those responsible for the attack, Duque added: "COLOMBIA is sad but will not bow to violence." A security council meeting that Duque was due to attend outside the capital has been cancelled, with the president saying he would return to Bogota immediately. The defence ministry said an investigation has been opened "to find those responsible for this terrorist act." Ecuador's center-left President Lenin Moreno said he would call Duque to "express all our solidarity with our Colombian brothers." |
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