COLOMBIA: FIVE PEOPLE SLIGHTLY INJURED AFTER SUSPECTED LEFTIST REBELS DETONATE A CAR BOMB OUTSIDE A MARKET IN BOGOTA
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COLOMBIA: FIVE PEOPLE SLIGHTLY INJURED AFTER SUSPECTED LEFTIST REBELS DETONATE A CAR BOMB OUTSIDE A MARKET IN BOGOTA
- Title: COLOMBIA: FIVE PEOPLE SLIGHTLY INJURED AFTER SUSPECTED LEFTIST REBELS DETONATE A CAR BOMB OUTSIDE A MARKET IN BOGOTA
- Date: 28th May 2002
- Summary: (U7) BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (MAY 28, 2002) (REUTERS - ALL ACCESS) 1. WIDE OF STREET WHERE BOMB WENT OFF 0.03 2. SV: POLICE ON SITE 0.07 3. SLV: DESTROYED CAR ON BACK OF TRUCK 0.12 4. MV: POLICE CLOSING OFF THE AREA 0.15 5. VARIOUS OF POLICE INSPECTING DESTROYED VEHICLE (5 SHOTS) 0.40 6. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COMMANDER OF POLICE, GENERAL HECTOR DARIO CASTRO SAYING: "It was a very weak explosive device, however, there was significant damage to the car that was carrying it, of course. I think it was between 20 or 30 kilos, according to the technicians. Fortunately, the explosive did not cause major damage and the injured are out of danger." 1.05 7. SV: ANTI-EXPLOSIVE TECHNICIANS ON SITE 1.10 8. SCU; WORKERS MOVING DESTROYED VEHICLE 1.15 9. SV: POLICE SECURE AREA 1.21 10. PAN: WORKERS TAKING AWAY DESTROYED VEHICLE 1.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th June 2002 13:00
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- Location: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
- Country: Colombia
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- Story Text: Suspected Colombian leftist rebels have detonated a car
bomb outside a market in the capital Bogota, slightly injuring
five people, police said.
The attack came on Tuesday (May 28), two days after
Colombians, frustrated at three years of failed peace talks
with rebels, handed a resounding victory to hard-line,
anti-rebel champion Alvaro Uribe in a presidential election.
The injured included the driver, a passenger and three
nearby pedestrians, Castro said. The twisted, charred remains
of the car lay among the hundreds of oranges it had been
carrying.
Uribe, who takes office on August 7, has said he will
double the number of police and professional soldiers to
combat the FARC, Latin America's oldest and most powerful
rebel army, which is waging a 38-year-old war against the
government.
Hours after winning the presidency, Uribe, a former
regional governor, told the FARC the negotiating door was open
-- but that rebels must first call a cease-fire, end their
profitable kidnapping business and suspend "terrorist acts."
The FARC has not commented on Uribe's victory.
Colombia's war, increasingly funded by the world's largest
cocaine industry, involves leftist rebels, right-wing
paramilitary outlaws and state security forces. The conflict
kills 3,500 people every year.
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