A total of 18 people were killed and more than 40 injured after two attacks in Colombia linked to various dissident factions from former guerrilla group FARC.
In Cali, the country's third most populous city, a cargo vehicle containing explosives exploded near a Colombian Air Force base, in an attack that killed six people and injured 71 people on Thursday.
Hours earlier, a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter belonging to the National Police involved in a koka leaf plant eradication operation was shot down in Amalfi's municipality, in the Antioquia department, which killed 12 officers.
Reported by Reuters on Friday, August 22, Colombian President Gustavo Petro blamed the attack on dissidential factions of the former guerrilla group of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).
The former FARC group is known to have rejected a 2016 peace treaty to end a prolonged internal conflict that killed more than 450,000 people.
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