Ten killed, 45 hurt in Colombian bombing

A bomb attached to a motorcycle ripped through a street lined with restaurants and discos in a southern city in Colombia today…

A bomb attached to a motorcycle ripped through a street lined with restaurants and discos in a southern city in Colombia today, killing at least 10 people and wounding 45 others.

The bomb exploded at about 3.00 a.m. local time in the so-called Zona Rosa district in Florencia, 210 miles (335 km) south of the capital, a police spokesman said.

No group fighting in Colombia's four-decade guerrilla war claimed responsibility for the attack, but leftist rebels have a strong presence in the area.

Two police officers were among the dead. The rest were civilian revelers, police said.

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