Attack on police truck leaves 11 soldiers injured in Colombia

At least 11 policemen were injured after an attack with explosives against a truck in which they were mobilising in the Colombian city of Cali (southwest), President Iván Duque reported Saturday.

"We condemn the cowardly terrorist attack against members of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad of @PoliciaColombia, which was registered in the Puerto Rellena sector, in Cali," Duque wrote on Twitter.

"We sympathise with the 11 soldiers wounded in the attack, 3 of them seriously," added the conservative president, who did not offer details about the alleged perpetrator of the attack.

Jimmy Dranguet, Cali Security Undersecretary, said that it was an attack "with explosives."

The mayor of the city, Jorge Iván Ospina, shared a photograph on Twitter in which the truck affected by the explosion can be seen. No civilians injured in the event are reported.

With 2.2 million inhabitants, Cali is the third largest city in Colombia and the largest near the Pacific, one of the regions with the most drug cultivation of the world's largest cocaine producer.

It is also a strategic corridor for the trafficking of this drug to North America.