Shopping centre bomb kills seven

www.theaustralian.news.com.au From correspondents in Bogota March 06, 2003

AT least seven people have been killed and 50 injured after a car bomb exploded in the north-eastern Colombian city of Cucuta. The bomb was believed to have been planted by National Liberation Army guerrillas, officials said.

The governor of Norte de Santander province, Juan Santaella, called the attack "a real tragedy" for the city, which is near the border with Venezuela.

The car bomb exploded in the parking garage of a shopping centre.

Another explosion today killed one soldier and injured three others in the outskirts of Carmen de Bolivar, some 950km north of Bogota, according to military sources.

Officials suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels of carrying out that attack.