Colombia: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels kill 6 policemen
At least six Colombian police officers have been killed and seven others injured in an attack by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), regional police sources say.
The attack was carried out on Monday afternoon in Padilla town in the Cauca state where armed rebels killed six motorcycle police officers, said country’s police director Gen. Jose Roberto Leon.
Those injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, he added.
The attack is the second major incident after the peace talks between the Colombian government and FARC rebels in Norway on October 18, in which both sides expressed optimism about reaching a possible deal to end the decades-long conflict that has so far claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and has displaced millions of others.