Two Colombian police officers were killed Saturday when criminals bombed their car, then hurled grenades and strafed it with gunfire, local authorities said.
The officers were near the town of Caldono, in southwestern Colombia, when their vehicle was “attacked with an explosive,” the police said in a statement.
Officers Jorge Andres Quintero, 31, and Jhoan Sebastian Rodriguez, 25, were on their way to pick up a man detained at a nearby police station.
The statement added that guerrillas formerly with the FARC rebel group are active in the area, but did not directly assign blame.
Cauca police commander Colonel Edgar Orlando Rodriguez said at a press conference said that after the bombing the car was hit by “rifles bursts and fragmentation grenades.”
President Juan Manuel Santos condemned the “cowardly murder” of the officers on Twitter, and vowed that “those responsible…
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