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struggle4progress

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Wed Jan 4, 2012, 07:05 PM Jan 2012

FARC attacks towns,blocks highway in southwest Colombia

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 10:35 Adriaan Alsema

Rebels of Colombian rebel group FARC have carried out two attack on towns and clashed with security forces in the southwestern department of Cauca Wednesday, newspaper El Pais reported.

According to the Cali newspaper's website, guerrillas of the FARC's 6th front fired homemade mortars to a police station in the town of Cajibio and at a populated area in the rural municipality of El Tambo.

No one was injured in either of the attacks, but the attack on El Tambo damaged the local school and four homes ...

In the municipality of Mondomo, state forces clashed with rebels to end a guerrilla roadblock that caused a mile-and-a-half traffic jam on the Pan-American highway between Cali and Popayan ...

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/21356-farc-attacks-townsblocks-highway-in-southwest-colombia.html

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