Colombian police said they seized a shipload of high power explosives on a bus Friday in the southwest of the country, which were thought to be related to rebel groups.
Colonel Ricardo Restrepo said the bus was traveling on the highways with 40 passengers aboard. The explosives seized were gunpowder and shrapnel.
"This can only be possessed by a terrorist, to pack all that amount of explosives in a public vehicle where a stub of cigarette, the heat or any other event could have produced a tragedy," Restrepo said.
The bus was traveling between the municipalities of Pradera andFlorida in the province of Valle de Cauca, where the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is demanding the demilitarization of the zone as a condition to have a dialogue with the government.
FARC, with some 12,000 fighters, is Colombia's oldest and strongest guerilla force and has been fighting against the government for decades.
Source: Xinhua
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