More than 30 injured leave car bomb in Colombia 3:08
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A car bomb exploded in a military installation in the city of Cúcuta, in the northeast of Colombia this Wednesday, leaving dozens of injuries, a millionaire reward for information on the material and intellectual authors of the attack and an investigation in which even the United States FBI participates.
President Iván Duque said on Tuesday that two hypotheses about authorship are being handled: a residual armed group or the National Liberation Army.
This is what we know about the car bomb attack in Colombia.
The facts
A vehicle exploded on Tuesday within the 30th Brigade of the Colombian Army, in the city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela.
The events occurred on June 15 at around noon, according to the Colombian attorney general, Francisco Barbosa.
Around 12:35 pm, a white truck entered the facilities of the 30th Brigade of the National Army.
Once inside the facilities, the vehicle parked for just over two hours and the person who was driving it left the military facilities.
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The defense minister said Tuesday that the truck entered the Battalion with two individuals.
The first explosion occurred at 3:01 pm local time and the second at 3:04 pm, the prosecutor said.
The security of the city of Cúcuta has been reinforced at different points with searches and with the support of the army to help the police, and the prohibition of companions on motorcycles in the Catatumbo area has also been ordered, the president said.
Duque also ordered to redouble border control with Venezuela in the entire Department of Norte de Santander between the police and the army and a joint patrol between both forces throughout the city of Cúcuta.
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The wounded
Defense Minister Diego Molano announced the attack that left 36 injured, one of them is in the ICU, and two underwent surgery.
The other people will be discharged in the next few hours, Molano said.
Molano said that “none of the US advisory members who accompany the fight against drug trafficking were seriously affected.
They are all minor injuries.
The FBI is accompanying the investigations, as reported by President Duque on Tuesday.
The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, reported on Tuesday that the FBI will help the National Police with specialized personnel in the investigation of the car bomb explosion in Cúcuta.
The Prosecutor's Office investigates
The prosecutor Barbosa said Tuesday that investigations are underway to clarify the facts.
So far they have located the owner of the van that exploded, saying that he is a person who lives in Cúcuta and who negotiated the sale of the Toyota Fortune 2017 model vehicle for 120 million pesos, about US $ 32,000.
That money would have been sent through a "domiciliary," Barbosa said.
"All the machinery of this circumstance and negotiation that also has a timeline from 2017 to today," added the prosecutor.
Barbosa, like the Defense Minister and President Duque, said that the hypotheses lead to blame armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN), the FARC dissidents.
The prosecutor also indicated that 2,000 meters of detonating cord were found: «At this moment, the respective technical studies are being carried out by the explosives experts to determine the type of explosive and the amount of explosive that was used to commit this attack. terrorist".
President Iván Duque said Tuesday that a reward of 500 million pesos, approximately US $ 137,000, is being offered to find the whereabouts of the material and intellectual authors of the attack.
General Luis Fernando Navarro, commander of the Military Forces, informed that he will relieve the guard services, the operations officer, the executive and second commander and the commander of the combat services support battalion No. 30 from their positions.