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Seven injured in bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia.
Source: Reuters
Five police and two civilians were injured after a bomb exploded in the south of Colombia's capital Bogota on Thursday, police said, in the latest of a string of attacks in the city.
The remote-controlled bomb, left on the median strip of an avenue in the south of the city of 7 million, was detonated as police officers passed by on motorcycles, an official from the Metropolitan Police said.
The authorities have not made any arrests or blamed any group for the attack, one of six in the capital over the past month. One attack targeted the headquarters of a political party, and another, the branch of a bank.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-colombia-explosion-idUSKBN0M81N320150312
