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Weekly Report - 17 May 2012 (WR-12-19)
COLOMBIA: Terror returns to Bogotá
Two people died and 39 more were injured after a bomb targeting Fernando Londoño Hoyos, a former interior & justice minister (2002-2004), exploded in Bogotá on 15 May. Londoño narrowly survived the attack. His driver and a police officer who was part of his security detail were killed, President Juan Manuel Santos revealed in a televised message. It was an audacious attack in broad daylight in a busy area in the north of the capital close to the financial centre, which inevitably raises fears of a return of this kind of terrorism which was all-too-common in Bogotá two decades ago. The most obvious culprits are the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) but the far right also had motives for the attack.
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