Southwest Colombia was rocked by a string of explosions that left at least one person dead Tuesday, police said, in what appeared to be a coordinated attack designed to sow terror.
Police told AFP that four car bombs and three other explosive devices detonated in Cali and in three towns, gutting buildings, wrecking storefronts and scattering debris.
Two bombs went off in Cali — the country’s third-largest city — and separate explosions were reported in the towns of Corinto, El Bordo, and Jamundi.
In Corinto, an AFP journalist witnessed the tangled wreckage of a car that had exploded next to a scorched and badly damaged municipal building.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks, but guerrillas who broke away from the now once-powerful FARC militia are known to operate in the area.
The bombings came just days after the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in Bogota, a brazen attack that has put the country on edge.
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