As Colombians voted in regional elections on Sunday, bomb attacks on two pylons cut the electricity supply to four towns close to the border with Ecuador, the authorities said.
The attack on the two towers, located in the town of Ricaurte, resulted in the power failure in Tumaco, Barbacoa, Pagui and Pagui Payan, Eduardo Zuniga, governor of the border Narino province, told local media.
He blamed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country's largest anti-government group, for the attack.
Narino is seen as a high-risk province during Colombia's regional elections, where murders and bomb attacks have occurred during the election campaign.
"The authorities are redoubling their efforts and this morning there was some bother with armed men which has not halted the polls," Zuniga said.
Elsewhere, fireworks explosions were reported in Currulao, a town in the northern Uraba province, and shootings in the northwestern Angioquia province.
Colombian Interior Minister Carlos Holguin said the security has been guaranteed during the elections and called on all the eligible voters to go to the polling stations together with their children for what he called "an exercise in democratic education."
Some 200,000 soldiers and police have been deployed for the elections to choose governors and councilors in 32 provinces and 1,098 mayors.
Officials at the Chapalito military base said that two helicopters are flying over the area to inspect the pylons and chase the rebels, who had clashed with government troops in the early hours of Sunday.
Despite the minor accidents, voting across the country was in general peaceful, said the authorities.
Source: Xinhua
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