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Colombian Military Strikes Back Against Armed Group<\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday, Colombian military forces announced they have successfully taken down five members of a militant group linked to a tragic bus bombing that killed 20 people and injured 45 others.<\/p>\n According to a statement from the Colombian Military Forces, these individuals were part of the “Estructura Jaime Mart\u00ednez,” a known armed group. Besides the bombing in Cajib\u00edo, authorities say this group has also been involved in vehicle thefts along the Pan-American Highway and launching drones filled with explosives.<\/p>\n The military’s actions were a direct response to an April 26 incident. An explosive device went off on a passenger bus on the Pan-American Highway in the troubled Cauca region. Initial reports indicated that 36 people were hurt, including children, though the military later confirmed that 45 civilians were affected.<\/p>\n General Hugo L\u00f3pez, leader of Colombia’s armed forces, condemned the bus bombing as a “terrorist act.” He pointed fingers at dissident factions of the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), particularly the Jaime Mart\u00ednez faction, which operates under a network led by Iv\u00e1n Mordisco, one of the country’s most wanted individuals.<\/p>\n A video shared by officials displayed body bags laid out near a military helicopter and a range of seized weapons. The Colombian military remains determined to combat such acts of violence, which have escalated in southwest Colombia, a region contaminated by illegal armed groups competing for control of coca leaf cultivation and drug trafficking routes to Central America and Europe.<\/p>\n The U.N. high commissioner for human rights has urged Colombian authorities to ensure justice for the victims of this terrorism.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colombian Military Strikes Back Against Armed Group On Wednesday, Colombian military forces announced they have successfully taken down five members of a militant group linked to a tragic bus bombing that killed 20 people and injured 45 others. According to a statement from the Colombian Military Forces, these individuals were part of the “Estructura Jaime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[19793,28543,28421,30625,9376],"class_list":["post-34928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-armed-forces","tag-bombings","tag-colombia","tag-organized-crime","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}