Bombs Damage 5 Banks in Colombia Capital
Bombs damaged five banks in northern Bogota early today, blowing out windows and wounding one guard in the first explosions to shatter a 10-day bombing lull in the Colombian capital, police said.
One bomb, made up of 22 pounds of dynamite and placed at a shopping center, damaged four banks and blew out windows in nearby homes.
Another bomb, going off simultaneously in another district, blew out windows of a branch of a state bank, wounding a guard and breaking windows in nearby stores.
About 40 bombs have rocked the northern city of Medellin, Colombia’s cocaine capital, since “the Extraditables,” a drug-linked group, declared war on the Colombian Establishment Aug. 24.
The campaign was in response to the government’s unprecedented anti-narcotics crackdown launched six days earlier. Bogota has been the scene of three bombings since the crackdown began.
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