Car Bomb Blast Wounds Dozens in Colombia

Killing atleast 11 people, the car bomb blast at a Colombian police academy in Bogotá has wounded around 72 people on Thursday morning which spread a fear about a remembrance of Colombia’s violent past.
The witness near the crime scene said they heard a loud explosion and the blast was quite big which broke the windows and the authorities have said that they identified the criminals.
According the CNN report, the police are thinking that the blast may be the result of a suicide attack.
Néstor Humberto Martínez, Colombia’s attorney general said that they have identified José Aldemar Rojas Rodriguez who was driving the a gray Nissan Patrol SUV car, rammed into the grounds of the police academy at full speed and ignored calls to stop. The driver is also dead.
“The car was carrying 80kg of the high explosive pentolite, which has been used in the past by Colombia’s rebel guerrilla groups,” said Néstor Humberto Martínez.
Calling the bomb as a “crazy terrorist act” President Iván Duque said that 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.”
“I’m sad and very worried because I don’t have any information about my son,” saying this Trujillo added “This reminds me of some very sad days in the past.”
“This kind of thing has an impact,” saying this Jenifer Beltrán, the witness described “It makes you think that once again the country is headed toward that memory of those years when there were so many car bombs and attacks everywhere.”
The US Embassy earlier issued a warning on its official Twitter account to Americans in Bogota, referring to a “security incident”.
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