BOGOTÁ — A bomb exploded at a police station in southern Colombia, killing the wife and son of a police officer and injuring at least six other people, the authorities said Saturday.
The blast Friday night killed the wife and 8-month-old son of the police captain in charge of the outpost in the town of Orito, about 330 miles southwest of Bogotá, said Gen. Rodolfo Palomino of the National Police.
Palomino said four police officers and two other people were injured. “One of them is the captain’s other son, who is just 2 years old,” Palomino told the Colombian radio station RCN.
The police captain, Jose Claros Gomez, also was among the injured and was hospitalized in Bogotá.
It was unclear whether an armed group in Colombia’s long-running conflict was behind the attack. The town is in a region where both leftist rebels and drug traffickers operate.
