One dead, 34 injured in Colombia truck bombing

CALI - A taxi driver was killed and 34 were people injured in a truck bombing in the city of Cali early Monday according to Colombian authorities, who blamed the attack on the Marxist FARC rebel group.
Police said some 70 kilos (150 pounds) of explosives were used in the bomb attack, which occurred shortly after midnight.
The blast destroyed the facade of the police headquarters building in this city of two million inhabitants and badly damaged some 30 dwellings.
"Miraculously, the death toll was not higher," police sergeant Ricardo Ramos told AFP.
General Hipolito Herrera, director of security for Colombia's national police force, said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- the country's decades-old Marxist insurgency -- was the prime suspect.
"Everything points to the FARC," he said.
Officials said the group has stepped up its operations the southwestern Valle del Cauca department, including Cali, its capital.
Colombia has been at war with the 14,000-strong guerrilla group since the 1960s.

04/09/2007 14:10 GMT