A device, probably a bomb attached to a motorcycle, exploded outside a police station in the town of Morales, Octavio Guzman, governor of the Cauca department, reported on X.
“They took me to the hospital because I couldn’t hear and see well,“ Deily Otero, one of the victims injured in the attack, told AFP.
“I looked at the police officers, I saw them on the ground and I saw the children... and the motorcycle on fire,“ Otero said.
The South American country has seen an uptick in violence as peace talks with remaining groups have broken down several times since a deal inked in 2016 led to the disarmament of the FARC -- then the biggest guerrilla army in the world.
In a press conference later Monday, Cauca police chief Giovanni Torres attributed the attack to rebel fighters of the Central General Staff (EMC) -- a splinter group of the FARC that rejected the peace agreement.
There are hotspots of fighting in the country’s northeast, northwest and southwest.
Last week, four bomb attacks in two cities near Colombia’s border with Venezuela injured six people, prompting officials to declare an overnight curfew. That attack was blamed on the ELN guerrilla group.
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