WORLD IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Mayor’s Bodyguard, Police Officer Slain
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The bodyguard of the mayor of Medellin and a police officer were shot dead, and two police stations were bombed in the latest outbreaks of the relentless violence in Colombia’s main drug center, officials said. No one was injured in the bombings. The officer’s death brought to 157 the number of police officers killed in Medellin so far this year. Meanwhile, police in Bogota, the capital, detained hundreds of suspects and searched buildings in the city to try to head off a new bombing campaign by drug traffickers.
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