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News Digest ——_- __ Edited by Victoria Ayotte Truck bomb kills 35 in Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia - A truck bomb containing half a ton of dyna mite exploded outside secret police headquarters during the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and wounding hundreds. The bomb, presumably the work of drug gangs, was the most powerful to strike the capital since Colombia’s cocaine traffickers began a wave of terror after the government declared war on them 16 weeks ago. A spokesman for President Vir gilio Barco said the bombing might be the start of a new campaign of mass killings by the drug traffickers, but that the government would fight on. The blast, which tore open a crater 20 feet deep and destroyed or heavily damaged a score of buldings, oc curred less than 24 hours after gov ernment investigators said a bomb caused the crash of a Colombian jet liner last month that killed 107 people. ■ iii —™ 111 ‘The slaughter that we warned of when the House approved extradi tion in the plebi scite has started.' —Minister Simmonds No one claimed responsibility di rectly for Wednesday’s explosion, but Gen. Faruk Yanine, Bogota po lice chief, said it was undoubtedly the work of drug traffickers. A statement from the so-called Extraditables delivered to newspa pers and radio stations in Medellin, base of the most powerful drug cartel, said: “We will stop the war only when the Senate understands the people must be our judge.” The reference was to a bill that would permit a national referendum on extraditing drug trafficking sus pends wanted in the United States. The House of Representatives ap proved it Tuesday night. Barco’s government opposes the measure, contending the drug barons would step up terrorism before a ref erendum to frighten voters into re jecting extradition. In their statement, the Extra ditables said: “The president should not fear what the congress decides, because the congress is the voice of the people, and the voice of the people is the voice of God.” Minister of Government Carlos Lemos Simmonds told reporters after the bombing: “The slaughter that we warned of when the House approved extradition in the plebiscite has started.” He is acting president while President Virgilio Barco is on a stale visit to Japan. The bomb went off at 7:30 a.m. in an area crowded with people bound for work on fool and in cars. So powerful was the explosion that it broke windows in a building across the street from the U.S. Em bassy seven miles away. The broad cast network Caracol quoted sources with explosives experts at the scene as saying the truck was packed with 1,100 pounds of dynamite. Reports on the number of dead and wounded varied, and rescuers were pulling bodies from the rubble of buildings hours after the blast. Health Minister Eduardo Diaz said in an interview with Caracol that at least 35 people were killed, 250 seriously wounded and 750 treated for cuts, abrasions and shock. Unconfirmed reports gave higher Remember family or friends with Special Occasion, Get Well or Memorial cards. we're ;;ghting for \OUR LIFE American Heart Association Nebraska Affiliate death tolls. The explosion blew the facade off the secret police headquarters and destroyed virtually all its walls and windows. Also heavily damaged were an office building for federal judges across the street and the na tional transit police headquarters a block away. Half a dozen stores across the street from secret police headquarters were reduced to smoking rubble and about 60 cars were destroyed. Visa renewal is one function of the secret police, or Department of Administrative Security. 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