Colombia Police Station Bombings Kill 7 Officers<br />Then, early on Sunday morning, the Barranquilla police were hit with another bomb, this<br />one at a small police station, which wounded four officers and three civilians.<br />28, 2018<br />BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A wave of bombings carried out against police stations this weekend has rocked Colombia’s<br />Caribbean coast, with three attacks within 24 hours killing seven officers and wounding dozens more.<br />The authorities are working on the assumption that more attacks are planned, and have not discounted the possibility<br />that all three attacks were carried out by the same criminal organization.<br />But Colombia has also recently been hit by multiple attacks from the National Liberation Army, or E.L.N., a smaller<br />leftist guerrilla group, which has launched a series of attacks against security forces and oil infrastructure.<br />In the coastal region of Colombia where the attacks took place, there has been an increase in activity from a number of criminal groups<br />that are looking to move into territory abandoned by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.<br />The attacks against the police reminded many Colombians of the violence the country endured in the 1980s<br />and early 1990s, when some 550 police officers were murdered under the orders of Pablo Escobar, the powerful drug lord.
