Four dead, 15 hurt in Colombia car bomb attack

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Four dead, 15 hurt in Colombia car bomb attack

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At least four people were killed in a car bomb attack in southwestern Colombia.

03 February,2012 04:52 am

A car bomb outside a police station in southwestern Colombia killed four people Thursday and left at least 15 injured, officials said, in the regions second such attack in less than 48 hours.Juan Guillermo Mina, mayor of the southwestern town of Villa Rica where the blast occurred, said the dead included the police stations commander and three local residents.The station was nearly destroyed, as were several nearby shops, television news footage showed.We have never had this type of incident occur here and I hope that it never happens again, Mina said.On Wednesday, a motorcycle bomb blamed on leftist guerrillas exploded near a police station in Tumaco, also in the countrys southwest, killing nine people including three policemen and wounding nearly 70.Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon accused the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the blast in Tumaco, and President Juan Manuel Santos traveled Thursday to the town, where he held a security meeting.While Thursdays attackers were unidentified, military officials say a FARC front operates in the Villa Rica region.The FARC, founded in 1964, has an estimated 8,000 fighters across Colombia, according to the Ministry of Defense.