Guachinte Valle del Cauca Colombia soldiers bomb explosion
© SANTIAGO SALDARRIAGA / APSoldiers patrol after a bomb explosion in Guachinte, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
The assaults came days after the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in Bogota. Many Colombians are fearful of a return to the violence of the 1980s and 1990s, when cartel attacks, guerrilla violence and political assassinations were commonplace.

Colombia was rocked by a string of coordinated bomb and gun attacks that killed at least seven people across the country's southwest on Tuesday, June 10, as rebel groups detonated bombs near police stations in the city of Cali - the country's third-largest city - and the neighboring Cauca province, hitting police posts, municipal buildings and civilian targets, Colombia's National Police said in a statement.

Military and police spokespeople blamed the attacks on the FARC-EMC, a group led by former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia who broke away from the group after it signed a peace deal with the government in 2016.

Authorities said the rebels placed bombs in cars and motorcycles that were parked near police stations, while also waging some attacks with gunfire and grenades. Colombia's police said there were a total of 24 attacks on Tuesday in the city Cali and the surrounding provinces of Cauca and Valle del Cauca, in which 28 people were also injured, including 19 civilians.

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