{"id":505777,"date":"2026-04-25T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-seven-dead-and-17-injured-in-an-attack-on-the-pan-american-highway-in-colombia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:27:09","slug":"at-least-seven-dead-and-17-injured-in-an-attack-on-the-pan-american-highway-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/at-least-seven-dead-and-17-injured-in-an-attack-on-the-pan-american-highway-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"At least seven dead and 17 injured in an attack on the Pan-American Highway in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cajib\u00edo.- <\/strong>At least seven people died this Saturday and 17 more were injured in a terrorist attack that destroyed a section of the Pan-American Highway and several vehicles traveling on that road in the department of Cauca, in southwestern Colombia, authorities reported.<\/p>\n\n\nThe attack was carried out in an area called El T\u00fanel, in the municipality of Cajib\u00edo, where alleged guerrillas launched a cylinder loaded with explosives that fell on a bus traveling through that sector.\n\nThe shockwave caused by the explosion also destroyed other vehicles and left a huge crater in the road, which interrupted traffic in that area.\n\n“An explosive device was activated on the Pan-American highway, in the El T\u00fanel sector, Cajib\u00edo, in an indiscriminate attack against the civilian population which, preliminarily, leaves 7 civilians dead and more than 17 seriously injured,” stated the governor of Cauca, Octavio Guzm\u00e1n, on his X account.\n\n\n

Mourning in Cajib\u00edo, Cauca<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe governor described what happened as “a tragedy that tears us apart as a department and deeply mourns our families.”\n\n\u00abWe strongly reject and with deep concern the terrorist acts that occurred in the tunnel sector, in the municipality of Cajib\u00edo, Cauca, where violence once again strikes the civilian population and alters the tranquility of our communities\u00bb, stated the director of the Land Restitution Unit (URT), Giovani Yule, who is a native of that region.\n\n\n

We recommend reading: U.S. authorizes Venezuela to pay the lawyers of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and Cilia Flores<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\nCajib\u00edo is a municipality located 35 kilometers from Popay\u00e1n, capital of Cauca, on the Pan-American Highway, which connects with Cali, capital of the neighboring department of Valle del Cauca.\n\n“The scenes from Cajib\u00edo, Cauca, are terrible. All solidarity with the citizens. We demand protection from the State for the southwest. No more total peace,” stated presidential candidate Paloma Valencia, from the right-wing opposition party Centro Democr\u00e1tico and also a native of Cauca, on X.\n\n\n

Terrorist Offensive in the Southwest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The attack was carried out just as the Minister of Defense, Pedro S\u00e1nchez Su\u00e1rez, was leading a security council in Cali to assess the situation in Valle del Cauca following the two attacks carried out on Friday in that department with bomb cylinders, like those used today on the Pan-American Highway.<\/p>\n\n\nThe first attack occurred in Cali against the Pichincha Battalion<\/a>, a military unit that also houses the headquarters of the Third Army Brigade, and at night cylinders were launched against the Agust\u00edn Codazzi Engineers Battalion, in Palmira, in both cases without causing victims.\n\nThe Army attributed both attacks to the Jaime Mart\u00ednez column, which is part of the Central General Staff (EMC), the main dissident group of the FARC, led by alias Iv\u00e1n Mordisco, the most wanted man in Colombia.\n\nThis Saturday, the Santana radar, located in the town of El Tambo (Cauca), used to control air traffic in that region of the country, was also attacked by an armed group, as reported by the Civil Aeronautics (Aerocivil).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cajib\u00edo.- At least seven people died this Saturday and 17 more were injured in a terrorist attack that destroyed a section of the Pan-American Highway and several vehicles traveling on that road in the department of Cauca, in southwestern Colombia, authorities reported. The attack was carried out in an area called El T\u00fanel, in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":505778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[13631,40360,43638],"class_list":["post-505777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-colombia","tag-dead","tag-pan-american-highway"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27zH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Via-Panamericana-1.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Via-Panamericana-1.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}