Two blasts rattle Colombian capital, injure 10
Two blasts have rocked different parts of the Colombian capital, Bogota, leaving at least 10 people injured.
The blasts targeted the offices of the Porvenir pension fund management company in the financial district of Bogota on Thursday, injuring 10 people, according to the fire department.
None of the 10 people were badly injured in the blasts.
Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said the explosions were undoubtedly “terrorist acts,” adding that the government was offering a reward of up to 100 million pesos (about USD 38,000) for information about the perpetrators of the attacks.
Meanwhile, the commander of the Bogota Metropolitan Police, Gen. Humberto Guatibonza, also said investigators were interviewing witnesses and reviewing footage from security cameras in the areas around the site of the two explosions to find out more details of the attacks.
Following the explosions, President Juan Manuel Santos also cut short an official visit to Peru to attend a trade conference, in order to oversee the investigation into the attacks.
He pledged to keep fighting "terrorism" while continuing political dialog.
"We will continue to fight terrorism with the Constitution in one hand and the military offensive in the other, as we have been doing with important results," he said.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet.
The explosions come at a time of growing tensions between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group.
Both the government and FARC, Latin America’s oldest rebel group, have been stepping up attacks in recent weeks, putting strains on peace talks that have been going on for two years in Cuba to end the five-decade-old conflict in the Latin American country, which has so far killed over 200,000 people.
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