By IANS
Bogota : At least two marines and two civilians – a woman and a girl – were killed and eight others wounded in an attack on a military patrol by leftist FARC guerillas on the outskirts of Colombia’s southwestern port city of Buena Ventura.
Spanish news agency EFE quoted Colombia’s Caracol Radio as saying Sunday that the attack occurred Friday in a hamlet outside the Pacific port city.
The radio said the insurgents triggered an improvised explosive device as the patrol was passing.
Among the wounded were three soldiers and five other civilians, the radio said.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was set up in 1964 by the Colombian Communist Party to defend what were then autonomous Communist-controlled rural areas. The FARC is Latin America’s oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped insurgency movement of Marxist origin.