CALI, Colombia – A police officer was killed and two others were wounded in a grenade attack in Tumaco, a city in the southwestern Colombian province of Nariño, the National Police said Sunday.The officers were attacked while patrolling Tumaco’s La Exportadora neighborhood in a police SUV on Saturday night.
Patrolman Iber Fernando Narvaez was unable to get out of the burning vehicle, while officers Jairo Andres Solarte and Alexis David Ramos Rodriguez escaped.
The Daniel Aldana column of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, may have been behind the attack, officials said.
The FARC said Friday it was ending its months-old unilateral cease-fire.
The guerrilla group’s move was in response to the killings of 27 of its members last Thursday in an airstrike in a rural area outside Guapi, a city in Cauca province.
If the FARC staged the grenade attack, it would be the first attack by the rebel group since ending the cease-fire.
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