A girl was killed and three other people were injured in Colombia on a bombing in the town of Miranda, Cauca department, assigned by the Army to the FARC, officials said Thursday.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC communist), the main rebel group in the country, launched two explosives into a military base located 400 meters from the house where the girl slept with her parents and brother, but failed, said the official version .
"The action (...) left a toll of the death of the little two-year-old, who form almost immediately died from multiple injuries that caused the explosion," the military said in a statement.
Furthermore, "the blast caused him serious injuries" to a woman and a man, both 34, and a child of five, all from the same family, added the text.
"The FARC released these artifacts without any aim and send them against the civilian population," he said in an interview with Radio Blu Cabra General Wilson, commander of the Apollo Task Force, Army Group operating Cauca.
The attack attributed to the FARC, a guerrilla group with more than 50 years old and about 8,000 fighters according to official figures, came two days after President Juan Manuel Santos warned that the attacks could put the peace talks at risk with insurgent group, which takes place without a ceasefire.
The Colombian government and the FARC carried out since November 2012 in Havana talks to end the internal armed conflict and have reached agreements on rural development, political participation, and illicit drugs.
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