A police officer was injured today in an attack on a UN mission monitoring the disarming of FARC rebels in Colombia as part of the group's peace deal with the government. Authorities said assailants attacked the location where the FARC rebel group had a weapons stash in the southwestern town of Caloto, in Cauca department. According to police, a splinter group of the Marxist rebels or the smaller National Liberation Army, ELN, could have been behind the violence. But Cauca police general Edgar Rodriguez said the ELN was to blame. The ELN is currently the only group fighting the<br/>Colombian government, though it is seeking to negotiate its own peace deal. <br/>The disarmament, mainly in June, by the roughly 7,000 members of Colombia's biggest rebel group under the 2016 peace accord brought a halt to the war. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching the historic deal with the FARC. It was signed last November.<br/>
News On AIR | August 7, 2017 9:39 AM
Attack on UN office in Colombia injures police officer