Explosion at Colombian club kills 20

Straits Times ^

[Lessismore]

BOGOTA (Colombia) -- At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Friday night when a powerful car bomb exploded in an indoor carpark of a posh nightclub frequented by the capital's top politicians, officials said.

The blast set the 10-storey building in north Bogota ablaze and showered bricks and mortar onto a busy boulevard, crushing passing cars. Police said that nine people were known dead and 114 were injured, RCN radio and television reported.

'It was a huge explosion. I thought an airplane had crashed outside,' said Mr Luis Moreno, who lives across the street from the club on Seventh Avenue. The explosion blew out walls of two stories of an interior parking garage at the club, raining rubble onto the street below.

Scores of people stumbled from the wrecked building, many with their faces streaked with blood.

Black smoke poured from the building, and flames licked out from the upper windows. Local media reported that people were still trapped inside.

Firefighters battled a blaze sparked by the blast that threatened to spread to neighbouring buildings, which include the Peruvian embassy and the homes of the ambassadors of Spain and Italy.

[Lessismore]

Presumably not terrorism -- just politics as usual.

[livius]

FARC. This bunch of terrorists has been quite peeved by the fact that the Colombians want to take back their own country, which was virtually ceded to FARC by Bill Clinton.

The problem is, naturally, that when you begin to fight terrorism, you put yourself in the crosshairs. But no society can survive by letting itself be cowed by terrorists and their constant threat; it's better to fight back, because at least then you have some chance of winning.

The Clinton-inspired give-away of a large part of Colombia simply whetted FARC's appetite for more.

[Dante3]

Good comment!

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