Attack caused six deaths

An explosives attack yesterday killed six people Wednesday and caused injuries to 71 in a port on the Colombian Pacific, reported officially.

The attack, apparently carried out with a "motor", was presented to the 1.58 hours (1858 GMT) at the port of Tumaco, Department of Nariño, 605 kilometers southwest of Bogota, said by telephone Hernando Cortés, Secretary of Government of the municipality.

The official added at the end of the day that the fatal victims were six: three policemen and three civilians.

The wounded were 71, of whom 35 were policemen, said Cortés. Earlier, general Rodolfo Palomino, director of the national police public security, blamed the bombing to a mobile phone of the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) column because it said that it was which had presence and acted in the area.

El President Juan Manuel Santos condemned the attack".Again, in a demonstration u000a"despair die 3 civilians and 2 patrol by a terrorist bomb in Tumaco", said the President in a message from your Twitter account.

Local media showed buildings who lost totally or partially their facades and several motorcycles burned to a side of the street.

The bodies of two women lying in the street after the outbreak. The general Palomino, national police, said the attack was "an expression of cowardice".

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