BOGOTA, Colombia — A bomb exploded Tuesday near a bridge that crosses Colombia’s border with Venezuela, injuring at least four police officers in the Colombian city of Cucuta, officials said.
Norte de Santander provincial Gov. In a video shared by De La Espriella’s office Tuesday, the president scolds some of the suspects captured by police. In September, an attack on another police station in the border city killed a civilian and injured eleven people.
Early on Tuesday morning, De La Espriella supervised an operation against gangs in Medellin, in which the government said it captured 135 people suspected of trafficking drugs and running human trafficking rings.
William Villamizar said on X that police were investigating who was responsible for the attack. In Cucuta, next to the border with Venezuela, authorities are investigating the murder of a former deputy mayor, who was assassinated on Monday night while on his way home.
