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| Botched Helicopter Bid to Bomb Jail |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 03/05/2001 |
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Two men trying to bomb a Colombian prison from a helicopter on February 20 accidentally dropped 220 pounds of TNT on a nearby residential neighborhood but the explosives did not detonate, police said. Police Col. Laureano Villamizar said the men were trying to drop the explosives, in two bags, on the prison of Vistahermosa in Cali, Colombia's second largest city, in what appeared to be a bid to free inmates. But the explosives landed some 165 feet from the prison in the southwestern neighborhood. Nobody was injured. The men abandoned the helicopter in a field and fled in a car, witnesses told police. Anti-explosive experts deactivated the bombs. Villamizar said it was not immediately known who was behind the attack but that the prison is filled with leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary gangs and drug traffickers. On Monday, rebels bombed the walls of a village prison in southern Colombia, freeing all 19 inmates, including two rebels, in an attack that left one officer injured. |
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