Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Another bombing in Colombia; 1 dead
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian officials say a bomb has exploded outside a police station in a western town, killing a police officer and wounding at least 20 people.
It is Colombia's second lunch-hour bombing near a police station in as many days.
Cauca state security coordinator Edith Cabeza confirmed the police officer's death in Thursday's 1 p.m. bombing in the town of Villa Rica
The attack comes a day after a bomb planted in a tricycle in the Pacific port of Tumaco killed nine people and unjured another 76.
Colombia's defense minister says leftist rebels perpetrated the Tumaco bombing in league with a local drug trafficking gang.
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