Colombia: Terror strike kills many

In yet another fatal attack on a police station in Colombia's western city of Villa Rica, around six people lost their lives and more than a dozen suffered injuries.

According to the reports by BBC, the attack was executed using gas cylinders filled with explosives that exploded in the police station when around 18 police officials were present inside.

Two days back, a similar kind of attack took place in a police station in country's south-western port city of Tumaco wherein 11 people were killed, including some police officers, and more than 70 critically injured.

However, police commander of the region Gen Jorge Nieto Rojas -suspected to have been targeted - was not injured.

It is believed that the attacks are being done by Colombia's left wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People´s Army, better known as FARC, a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia.

The BBC reports suggest that the organization is targeting the country's security forces since their leader was killed in a military operation in November.

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