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Police officers killed as Colombia rebels launch gun, bomb attacks

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Police stand guard outside the Morales police station after militants opened fire and detonated cylinder bombs on it and a bank in the town of Morales, Cauca department, Colombia, on May 20, 2024. [AFP]

Colombian guerrilla fighters killed two police officers and two other people Monday in separate gun and bomb attacks that injured at least seven in the country's troubled southwest, officials said.

Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez pinned an attack in the town of Morales, in the Cauca department, on Central General Staff (EMC) rebels who had rejected a peace deal the FARC Marxist guerrilla group signed with the government in 2016.

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