BOGOTA (REUTERS) - Three attacks in the last 24 hours have left at least 17 dead across Colombia in regions contested by drug traffickers, criminal groups and dissidents of the demobilised Farc guerillas, officials and local media reported on Saturday (Aug 22).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BOGOTA - Three attacks in the last 24 hours have left at least 17 dead across Colombia in regions contested by drug traffickers, criminal groups and dissidents of the demobilised Farc guerillas, officials and local media reported on Saturday .
"We don't know if the dead form part of an organisation or if they are family members," General Nairo Martinez, commander of the Army's Hercules Task Force, told local Caracol Radio in reference to the killings in Narino."We are pained by the deaths caused by the violence driven by drug trafficking and terrorism," he said."The security situation is deteriorating noticeably,"Vivanco said via Twitter.
Another five people were killed in an attack in a neighbourhood in the east of the city of Cali on Aug 11.
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