Cocaine lab explosion kills nine in Colombia
BOGOTA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A cocaine laboratory explosion killed nine people Friday on Colombia’s Pacific coast, police said. The blast happened in southwest Narino department in a cocaine-producing area inhabited by the Indigenous Awa people and rife with illegal armed groups. Eight people were wounded. These victims worked for the National Coordinator Bolivarian Army, a renegade faction of the now defunct FARC guerrilla group. A preliminary investigation found a gas cylinder exploded while being used to make the drug, police colonel John Jairo Urrea told local media via video. “Due to human error and the handling of gas cylinders… […]
