Three Colombian Police Killed on Landmine-Littered Road

BOGOTA – Three members of Colombia’s National Police were killed and another was wounded while riding on a road that suspected leftist guerrillas had strewn with landmines, that institution said in a statement.

The attack occurred Thursday on a stretch of road near the town of Balboa, in the southwestern province of Cauca, as the officers passed by in a police vehicle.

National Police sources said in Popayan, the provincial capital, that they suspect that Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, rebels were behind the attack.

National Police units were dispatched to the site of the attack, where they launched an operation to track down the “terrorist cell that planted and detonated the explosives,” the sources said.

The FARC, Colombia’s oldest and largest leftist guerrilla group, was founded in 1964, has an estimated 8,000 fighters and operates across a large swath of this Andean nation. EFE
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