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"Rebel bombs kill six in Colombian port city"
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BOGOTA - Six people were killed on Sunday when Colombian rebels set off explosives near a police patrol in the Pacific port city of Buenaventura in the third serious guerrilla attack in a week, authorities said.

Two police officers and four civilians died and at least 18 more people were wounded when the two explosives were detonated, a police spokesman said.

“The police were drawn in by a fight between two men. As they were approaching, one bomb went off and then a second that ended with this tragic result,” Buenaventura Mayor Saulo Quinones told local television.

Officials believe the attack could have been retaliation for police counter-narcotics operations. Authorities say Buenaventura is an important channel for the Andean country’s drug trade involving guerrillas and rival militias.

With the help of millions in US aid, President Alvaro Uribe has reduced violence from the 40-year conflict by sending troops to retake areas under rebel control and demobilize illegal, right-wing militias who once fought guerrillas.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the country’s largest left-wing rebel group, is still strong in rural areas. US and Colombian officials say the FARC is a drug-trafficking terrorist organization."