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Article: DRUG LORDS SUSPECTED IN COLOMBIA BOMBING AT LEAST EIGHT KILLED IN BOGOTA EXPLOSION.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 12, 1999
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Raising the specter of a bloody era when drug lords sowed terror to avoid extradition to the United States, a car bomb ripped through a Bogota commercial district yesterday, killing at least eight people and injuring 45.
The shrapnel-packed bomb, placed in a red Mazda sedan and believed detonated by remote control, destroyed a two-story house and a restaurant on a wide avenue and blew out the windows of banks, stores and apartment buildings nearly a quarter mile away.
It was the Colombian capital's worst blast since the wave of terror by the Medellin cocaine cartel in the late 1980s and early 1990s aimed at stopping the extradition of its members to the ...