2017 Centro Andino bombing

2017 Centro Andino bombing
Part of Colombian conflict
The Centro Andino shopping mall
Location Bogotá, Colombia
Date 18 June 2017
5:00 pm
Weapons IED
Deaths 3
Non-fatal injuries
 9
Perpetrators People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP)

On June 18, 2017, an explosion at the upmarket Centro Andino shopping mall in the Zona Rosa district of Bogotá, Colombia, killed three people and injured 11 others. One of the killed was a French woman.[1][2]

Responsibility

Police later arrested eight members of a small far-left urban guerilla group called the People’s Revolutionary Movement (Movimento Revolucionario del Pueblo, MRP).[3] The group has only been known since 2015 and are suspected in 14 other attacks in Colombia.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Three killed in Colombia blast". 18 June 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "Shopping Center Blast in Colombia Kills 3 and Injures 9". www.nytimes.com.
  3. ↑ "Meet the MRP, the group accused of the Bogota terrorist attack that killed 3". colombiareports.com. 26 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Colombian police arrest eight in Bogota mall bombing probe". www.nbcnews.com.
  5. ↑ Cobb, Julia Symmes. "Colombian police arrest eight in mall bombing probe". uk.reuters.com.

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