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Bogota nightclub explosions leave one dead, 72 injured

Grenade explosions hit two bars in a popular Bogota nightclub district late Saturday night, leaving 72 people injured, one woman dead, police said Sunday.

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Grenade explosions hit two bars in a popular Bogota nightclub district late Saturday night, leaving 72 people injured, one woman dead, police said Sunday.

Of the injured, 19 are in critical conditions.

Rescuers reached the scene soon after the attack and police cordoned off the area of the blast.

Initial investigation showed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the largest leftist guerrilla group in the country, should be responsible for the explosions, which took place at 11 p.m. local time in the upscale Zona Rosa district in northern Bogota.

Three Americans and one German were among the injured, said Bogota police chief Daniel Castro.

Saturday's attack was a terror act against civilians by FARC, Castro said.

The police have detained a suspicious 25-year-old man.

Colombia's four-decade-old civil war pits the leftist guerrillas, government forces and the far right paramilitaries against each other. About 3,500 people, mostly civilians, are killed in the fighting each year.

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