&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Five dead, 36 injured in bomb attack on Colombia air base")
At least five people were killed and 36 were injured when a vehicle bomb ripped through a busy street in the Colombian city of Cali on Thursday (August 21), police said, apparently targeting an air base. "An explosive device was detonated" near the Marco Fidel Suarez Military Aviation School, police said.
"There was a thunderous sound of something exploding near the air base," 65-year-old eyewitness Hector Fabio Bolanos told AFP. "There were so many injured people," he said. "Many houses were damaged in front of the base," he said. Multiple buildings and schools were evacuated in the area after the attack.
Eyewitness Alexis Atizabal, 40, indicated that civilians may be among the dead. "There were fatalities among people passing by on the avenue," he said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible, but regional governor Dilian Francisca Toro called it a "terrorist attack."
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In June, leftist guerrillas claimed responsibility for a wave of bomb and gun attacks in and around Cali that killed seven people.
