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Fri 11 Nov 2009Six dead in Colombia bus attack
Six people, including two children, were killed when suspected Colombian Farc guerrillas stopped and set fire to bus traveling in the south of the country, a local state governor said today.
The Farc has been battered by president Alvaro Uribe's US-backed military campaign, but guerrillas are still active in areas where state presence is weak. Rebels often stop and burn buses and trucks as a form of intimidation.
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