Authorities said the car broke through checkpoints into the grounds of the General Santander School and exploded, shattering windows of apartments nearby. It was the deadliest attack in Bogota since the government struck a 2016 peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebel group. This will not be an exception,” he told a news conference at the school in the south of the city. The worst of the war, which killed some 260,000 and left millions displaced, ended when the government reached a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016. Duque, who took office in August, has conditioned peace talks on the ELN suspending hostilities and releasing all hostages.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 17, 2019 22:07 UTC