Bogota - Suspected rebels detonated a bomb during a festival in a central Colombian town, injuring 22 people, including children, police said.
Residents of Sacama, in Casanare state, were holding a party in the town's main park on Sunday evening when a brawl broke out among revelers. As police went to break up the fight, a bomb exploded, wounding 11 children, five adult civilians and six police officers.
Police originally reported that two of the officers died while being treated in a hospital, but later said medics were able to revive them.
It was not immediately clear whether the brawl was a setup.
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Police on Monday blamed members of Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Four suspected rebels, who allegedly detonated the bomb but were not involved in the fight, were captured, police said.
The FARC, along with a smaller leftist rebel organisation, have been fighting the Colombian government for four decades in a civil war that kills about 3 500 people, mainly civilians, each year. - Sapa-AP
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