Colombia investigating after car bomb injures 36 at military base

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A car bomb inside a Colombian military base has injured 36 people – three of them critically. The government suspects the country’s largest armed group, the ELN, was behind the attack.

It happened in Cucuta, a town bordering Venezuela, and where several criminal groups operate drug trafficking routes.

Ivan Duque, the Colombian president, told reporters that his government would offer a $135,000 reward to find those responsible for the blasts in Cucuta. A special investigative group had also been set up to look into what happened, he said.

Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Bogota, Colombia.

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Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely in the north of South America, with territories in North America. Colombia is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, the northwest by Panama, the south by Ecuador and Peru, the east by Venezuela, the southeast by Brazil, and the west by the Pacific Ocean.

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