Bomb blast on Colombia highway leaves at least 21 dead ahead of May elections

Dissident Farc faction blamed for attack on Pan-American Highway that also injured 36 people in south-western region The death toll in a Colombian highway bombing blamed on cocaine-trafficking rebels has risen to 21, the government said on Monday, in the country’s worst attack on civilians in decades and just ahead of elections. The attack on Saturday left 56 injured and buses and vans mangled on the Pan-American Highway, in the restive south-western Cauca department. Continue reading...