At 5:30 this morning, local time, a car bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Caracol Radio in Bogotá, Colombia. The facade of the building was damaged and nine persons were wounded.
Via the BBC: Car bomb rocks Colombian capital
The blast damaged the office block housing Caracol Radio on the city’s main 7th Avenue. It also blew out the windows of nearby buildings and cars.
At least nine people were hurt, according to Caracol Radio.
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Television pictures showed a bus with shattered windows and panicked residents in the streets following the explosion, which happened at around 0530 (1130 GMT), as the Caracol Radio morning show began.
The radio programme continued from the 12-storey building despite the explosion, the Associated Press reports.
For those familiar with Bogotá, the building is located at the corner of Carrera 7 and Calle 67. For those unfamiliar, the Séptima (7th) is a major north-south artery. Traffic today is going to be a nightmare, as police have cordoned off a multi-block area (see El Tiempo: Por seguridad, cierres viales por estallido en la carrera 7 se amplían; se mantiene Pico y Placa).
According to a news crawl on the Caracol site, the bomb consisted of 50 kilos of ammonium nitrate. El Tiempo is reporting that this was the same type of explosive used by the FARC in a 2024 bombing in the Nogal neighborhood of Bogotá.
El Tiempo has some photos here.
August 15th, 2024 at 12:53 pm
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