Truck bomb near army base in Colombia's Planadas kills four, including a 2-month-old baby

L2Who’s affected

Civilians in the Aeropuerto neighborhood; La FM reported damage up to three blocks away, and Semana reported 170 homes affected. Gov. Adriana Magali Matiz told La FM the hospital was 80% destroyed. The wounded were treated at the Santo Domingo Savio school (Caracol). The mayor decreed a curfew, and the CEATI health centre was evacuated (Caracol).

L3Why it’s quiet

Analysis · OVERLOOKED It happened in a remote mountain municipality in southern Tolima, and most detailed coverage is in Spanish-language Colombian media. BBC and UPI carried it in English.

L4Deeper impact

Matiz said the attack was aimed at the military unit but went off early (La FM); Semana's military sources say the same is being checked. Portafolio counts four attacks attributed to dissidents in Cauca, Huila and Tolima over the weekend, with five dead and at least 12 injured, and reports the governor asked for three municipalities to be militarized. The army commander, Maj. Gen. José Bertulfo Soto Sánchez, ordered stepped-up operations and two platoons were sent (El Tiempo; Semana).

L5Full context

Attribution is preliminary. El Tiempo and Semana point to the Gerónimo Galeano structure of the dissidents led by alias Iván Mordisco; UPI says regional authorities named the Ismael Ruiz Front, a faction of the main former-FARC dissident bloc. BBC says armed groups have stepped up attacks amid an offensive by President Abelardo de la Espriella. The 2016 peace deal with the FARC ended decades of conflict, but its implementation is slow (DW). On Oct. 28, Matiz warned that four people had been killed in three days in southern Tolima, with preliminary reports pointing to illegal mining in Ataco and Chaparral (El Tiempo).

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