Friday 22 / August / 2025
At least five people died in a suspected truck bomb that exploded mid-afternoon Thursday near a military base in Cali, Columbia's third most populated city.
Dozens of people were injured in the explosion, which struck on a road adjacent to a military aviation school, according to the mayor's office in Cali, in the South American country's southwest.
Hours earlier, a police helicopter was shot down in the department of Antioquia in northern Colombia, killing 12 officers and injuring several others.
The national police Black Hawk helicopter was transporting personnel to the rural Amalfi area to eradicate a coca leaf crops, the raw material used to make cocaine.
Antioquia governor Andres Julian said in a post on X that a drone attacked the helicopter as it flew over coca leaf crops.
In a later post, he asked why authorities had failed to rescue the injured and recover the bodies of the dead nine hours after the helicopter downing.
