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| Car bomb wounds eight in Colombia |
| 2007-03-02 |
| At least eight people were wounded when Colombian guerrillas exploded a car bomb in a suspected assassination attempt on the mayor of a southern city, authorities said. Local television showed a bus in flames near the wreck of the car and debris scattered over the street. Eight people were wounded in the blast in Neiva, 300 kilometres south of the capital Bogota, the civil defence agency said. "Everything points to an assassination attempt on the mayor of Neiva," Police Colonel Miguel Angel Bojaca told local radio. Neiva Mayor Cielo Gonzalez has received threats from leftist guerrillas fighting a four-decade-old conflict. A grenade was fired at her house in 2003 and a bodyguard was killed during an assassination attempt on her father. |
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