In Cali alone, five deceased people are reported, while eight military died in Antoquia after the demolition of a helicopter.
Police members inspect the area where a bomb car exploded in Cali. Five people died and tens were injured when a bomb vehicle hit a military base,
A bomb car in the vicinity of the Marco Fidel Suárez Aviation School in Caliand the Demolite of a police helicopter in it Amalfi Antioquia Municipalityhave left at least Thursday Thirteen dead and more than twenty injured.
The Two attacks, occurred with a few hours apartreactivate the alarm in regions where you delinate dissidents of the FARC, the Eln and heirs bands of paramilitarism.
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Cali returned to be the scene of an attack on Thursdayperpetrated on this occasion with a Pump truck in the vicinity of the Marco Fidel Suárez Aviation School that has caused at least five dead and fourteen injured.
The fact has occurred several weeks after three attacks coordinated with explosives perpetrated in that city on June 10, which They left seven dead and more than fifty injured.
That day there were in total seven attacks in the Valle del Cauca and twelve in the neighboring department of Caucain which eight people diedamong them two police.
In that area they have presence the dissidents of the extinct FARCheirs of paramilitarism and guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN).
June attacks were attributed to Central General Staff (EMC), the greatest dissent of the FARC.
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The outbreak occurred on Thursday in the vicinity of the Marco Fidel Suárez Aviation School They have not yet been claimed by any armed organization.
Attack in Antioquia
The explosion of this Thursday in Cali has coincided with the attack on a Colombian police helicopter, supposedly with a drone, in the municipality of Amalfi, in the department of Antioquia (Northwest), a fact that has left at least eight uniformed dead and eight injured, the government said.
The helicopter was shot down when he provided “Safety to uniformed in eradication work Manual of Coca crops“
The attack occurred in the middle of the worse crisis of violence that the country lives Since the signing of the Peace Agreement with the FARC guerrillas, in 2016.
A police officer told agencies that The attackers “harassed” a group of coca leaf eradicatorsbase component of cocaine, and attacked with a drone one of their helicopters, which rushed to the ground.
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In Amalfi they commit the Front 36 of the Disidences of the old FARC and the Gulf clan.
According to him Defense Minister Pedro Sánchezthe attackers are guerrillas of a dissent of the extinct Farc. Initially, the Authorities mistakenly attributed THE ATTACK TO THE CARTEL Gulf clan.
Most recent information collected by the Police “confirms that the attack was perpetrated by the (structure) e36 of the criminal dissidents“Under the command of alias Calarcá, Sánchez said In the social network X.
He President Gustavo Petro said Thursday that his government will declare as “terrorist” organizations the Gulf clanwhich is the main criminal gang of the country, and two dissidents of the old FARC, which are the Central General Staff (EMC) and the Second Marquetalia.
Peace dialogues
The blocks under the command of aka Calarcá They are a split of Central General Staff (EMC), the largest group of fronts that resumed the weapons after the signing of the guerrillas peace with the government.
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The organization held from 2023 new peace approaches with the government of Gustavo Petrobut it was divided into two when its maximum leader, aka Iván Bite, left the negotiating table a year later.
The loyal faction to Calarcá remained in the dialogues, which have had few advances. A ceasefire among the rebels of that group And the authorities beat last May and, since then, the public force holds operations against the structure.
He Use of drones loaded with explosives to attack police and militaryrival armed groups and even civilian population is increasingly common in Colombia.
According to a report of International Red Cross Committee (ICRC)victims of explosive artifacts, especially for the “intensive use” of drones, doubled in the first months of 2025.
Colombia, the largest cocaine producer in the world, registered a record of 253,000 hectares of coca leaf culture in 2023. The Petro government promotes a plan for voluntary eradication by peasants through economic incentives.
