Terrorist attack on the Colombian-Venezuelan border: detonan car bomb in the cucuteño toll that connects with the Simón Bolívar International Bridge

A new terrorist attack shook Colombia. On Wednesday night an explosion destroyed the toll that Cúcuta communicates with the Simón Bolívar International Bridge on the border with Venezuela.

Preliminary reports you handle Caracol news indicate that it was a bomb car, while RCN He affirms that the aforementioned vehicle had a Venezuelan plate.

Until the moments, the authorities have counted five wounded citizens, including a taxi driver.

The injured are three workers of the National Roads Institute (INVÍAS) and two guards of the attacked toll, located in Villa del Rosario, municipality of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Cúcuta, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and the main border passage of Colombia with Venezuela.

«The toll was completely destroyed,» said the Secretary of Citizen Security of Norte de Santander, George Quintero, who offered a reward «up to one hundred million pesos (about $ 25,000) to find those responsible for the violent events of the violent events of the last hours ».

Almost simultaneously this morning was attacked with shooting a police post located in the historic temple, in front of the native house of General Francisco de Paula Santander, one of the heroes of Independence, also in Villa del Rosario, and the police station of the stop, currently under construction.

No authority has confirmed the authorship of these attacks, although it is suspected that they may have been perpetrated by the Guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN), which operates in the region and that in recent days it put bomb cylinders on some roads in northern northern Santander

The wave of violence occurs one day after several governors claimed the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, for the aggravation of the armed conflict in various parts of the country, during a meeting of the president with regional authorities.

«There is a very complicated perception in the country regarding security,» said William Villamizar, governor of Norte de Santander, where the Catatumbo region is located, whipped for a month by the roller of the ELN against a dissent of the FARC that He has left at least 63 dead and more than 50,000 displaced.

Villamizar, who spoke as a spokesman for his colleagues of the 32 Colombian departments, called to «strengthen the intelligence and work of the military forces» with an increase in the foot of force in several regions.

The same concern expressed the governor of Chocó, Nubia Carolina Córdoba, since in her department Eln Libra fights with the Gulf clan, the main Colombian criminal band, which until last week had left about 3,600 displaced and more than 12,000 people confined.

«I have raised the voice in recent days in the name of the department of Chocó and in the name of the communities of the department of Chocó because it is a true humanitarian crisis and international humanitarian law (DHI),» said Córdoba.

Images of the attack

People who were close to the scene have shared different videos of how the toll was after the explosion. In one of those audiovisual records, a man who makes a pano with his camera speaks and reports that he was saved from a miracle. In addition, he shows a taxi that was destroyed.

«This my Papachos just exploded, the toll,» says the citizen.