9 Police Officers Killed in Car Bombing
A car bomb believed planted by leftist rebels ripped apart three passing police vehicles, killing nine officers.
The officers were rushing along a mountainous highway to reinforce other police battling a rebel attack in Andinapolis, south of Bogota, when the bomb exploded in a parked car, national police spokesman Sgt. Alberto Cantillo said.
“It was an ambush,” Cantillo said. He blamed the bloodiest attack against police forces this year on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country’s main rebel group, which has been trying to topple the government since 1964.
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