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Colombian Police Seize
High Power Explosives On
Bus
BOGOTA - Colombian
police said they seized
a shipload of high power
explosives on a bus
Friday in the southwest
of the country, which
were thought to be
related to rebel groups.
Colonel Ricardo Restrepo
said the bus was
traveling on the
highways with 40
passengers aboard. The
explosives seized were
gunpowder and shrapnel.
"This can only be
possessed by a
terrorist, to pack all
that amount of
explosives in a public
vehicle where a stub of
cigarette, the heat or
any other event could
have produced a
tragedy," Restrepo said.
The bus was traveling
between the
municipalities of
Pradera and Florida in
the province of Valle de
Cauca, where the
Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC)
is demanding the
demilitarization of the
zone as a condition to
have a dialogue with the
government.
FARC, with some 12,000
fighters, is Colombia's
oldest and strongest
guerilla force and has
been fighting against
the government for
decades.
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