Colombia: A second child was killed in a bomb blast outside a police station

And a second child dead from her bomb attack in front of a police station in Colombia. One little girl 5 years old succumbed to injuries sustained Saturday night when a bomb blast targeted a police station in the capital, Bogota. This is the second child, after one 12 year old boy, who lost his life in this action, the mayor announced.

“I am deeply saddened to announce that the five-year-old girl, Ivana Salome’s Rachel Molina, died this morning,” after the child was rushed to hospital on Saturday, “in a very serious condition,” “brain dead”. after being hit in the head by a fragment, said the mayor of the capital, Claudia Lopez, as broadcast by AMPE.

Ivana was among seven children injured when a suitcase placed in front of a police station exploded and was “fired from a distance by telephone,” Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano told reporters.

The 12-year-old boy, who was injured while going out to do chores, succumbed the day before yesterday, Sunday.

“I was where I should never have gone”

“I was where I should never have gone (…). “This war we are living, that we should not have fought, always hurts the most innocent,” said the boy’s mother, Gloria Buitrago.

The target was a police station in Ciudad Bolivar, a slum in the capital where large numbers of internally displaced people live due to violence in Colombia.

General Eliezer Kamacho Jimenez, Bogota police chief, said Sunday that 33 people had been injured, including two police officers.

“Identical mechanism” was used on March 5 in an attack on another police station in the same neighborhood, according to authorities.

The organization that claimed responsibility for the attack

According to policea faction of dissidents of the former FARC guerrilla organization, which opposes the 2016 peace agreement, led by “John Metsas”, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Colombian President Ivan Duque, whose term ends in August – he has no right to run again in the May 29 presidential election – has condemned “terrorist attack and offered a reward of $ 80,000 (€ 72,800) for any information that would allow the perpetrators to be arrested.

The FARC rebel group, led by the so-called John Metsas, claimed responsibility last year for a rifle attack on a helicopter carrying the head of state and his ministers, among others.

Colombia experiences resurgence of armed violence: rebels of former Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) rebels reject the 2016 peace agreement; members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) formally in Colombia; the heirs of far-right paramilitaries who were officially disarmed and disbanded in 2006; and other organizations that are primarily involved in drug trafficking, such as the Clan del Golfo.

Source: News Beast

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