Terrifying moment explosive is hurled at mayor's home

A antheral has been arrested successful transportation with the bombing of a mayor's location successful Colombia, authorities said.

The unidentified fishy was captured Wednesday, a time aft an explosive was thrown astatine the residence of Mayor Jaime Herrera successful El Carmen de Atrato, a metropolis successful the Pacific seashore section of Chocó.

Surveillance video showed a hooded fishy approaching the location connected Tuesday soon aft 6pm and tossing the explosive implicit a terrace.

The man, who was carrying a tiny bag, took disconnected moving earlier the weaponry exploded conscionable seconds later.

The blast near holes connected the crushed and the exterior wall.

No injuries were reported, arsenic the politician was astatine his metropolis hallway bureau and his woman and his children were not astatine home.

Herrera told Colombian quality outlet Semana that helium has been the unfortunate of extortion demands made by the National Liberation Army, a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group.

'They person asked maine for wealth via manila envelopes and quality sources,' helium said. 

'They bash not inquire maine for a circumstantial amount, conscionable money.' 

The National Liberation Army is considered a violent enactment by Colombia, the United States, Canada, the European Union and New Zealand.

Herrera called connected the medication of President Gustavo Petro to measurement up information for him and his household and successful cities crossed the country, wherever the National Liberation Army is known to extort residents and businesses.

'I americium asking the nationalist authorities for full bid for Colombia and Chocó,' helium said.

'The equipped groups person destroyed the municipalities owed to extortion. I anticipation this authorities gives maine much information and extortion for maine and my household because, astatine this moment, I americium not harmless wherever I am.'

The leftist Petro, who was erstwhile a subordinate of the 19th of April (M19) Marxist guerrilla group, had not addressed the bombing arsenic of Thursday.

Chocó Governor Nubia Córdoba-Curi said successful a station connected X Wednesday that prosecutors were moving connected presenting transgression charges earlier a justice and that the service accrued information measures on roads and the city's borderline owed to the beingness of the National Liberation Army successful the region.

The attack, which has not been claimed by the National Liberation Army, comes arsenic Petro is attempting to scope a bid woody with the Colombian rebel radical Segunda Marquetalia.

Segunda Marquetalia, founded by erstwhile members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who remained loyal to Marxist ideals and the pursuit of equipped struggle, rejected a landmark 2016 bid woody betwixt FARC and the authorities that had sought to extremity decades of struggle successful Colombia. 

Armando Novoa, the government's main negotiator with the group, said that bid talks proceed 'with those who amusement an interest,' which helium said was a bulk of the group's members.

He said the divisions wrong Segunda Marquetalia, 1 of the largest remnants of FARC, stem from a deficiency of connection betwixt the group's apical leader, Iván Marquéz, and seasoned commandant Walter Mendoza.

Mendoza has been acting arsenic main negotiator for the group, which is made up of much than 1,700 combatants. They are chiefly based successful northeastern Colombia adjacent the Venezuelan borderline successful jungle and mountainous areas cardinal to lucrative cause trafficking and amerciable mining.