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      <text>Thirteen people are killed and 38 others are injured in a bombing on a bus on the Pan-American Highway in Cauca Department, Colombia. </text>
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      <text>At least seven people are killed and 17 others are injured in a bombing on the Pan-American Highway in Cauca Department, Colombia. </text>
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    <text>Fourteen people are killed and 38 others are injured in a bombing on a bus on the Pan-American Highway in Cauca Department, Colombia. </text>
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    <text>A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an attack on a police station in Cauca, Colombia, by FARC dissidents, prompting military deployment to restore order. </text>
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      <text>Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and several others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. </text>
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      <text>Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 11 others are injured, in a shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. </text>
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      <text>Ten people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 30 others are injured in a shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. </text>
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    <text>Seven people are killed, including two police officers, and 36 others are injured in nineteen bombings and shootings by FARC dissidents targeting police posts, municipal buildings and civilians in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Another explosion is also reported in Jamundí. </text>
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      <text>A motocycle bomb explosion near a police station in Piendamó, Cauca Department, Colombia, injures 18 civilians. </text>
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      <text>A motocycle bomb explosion by a police station in Piendamó, Cauca, results in 18 civilian injuries. </text>
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    <text>A motocycle bomb explosion near a police station in Piendamó, Cauca Department, Colombia, injures 19 civilians. </text>
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      <text>The National Liberation Army (ELN) and the FARC dissidents exchanges heavy fire across the Catatumbo region del Catatumbo, Colombia, killing at least 80 people and injuring hundreds of others, with an unknown number of people also reportedly being kidnapped, after the ELN accused the FARC dissidents of killing civilians in the area. Thousands of people have fled their homes due to the fighting. The Colombian Army says that it has rescued dozens of people, while the government calls on the ELN to immediately cease their attacks. </text>
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      <text>The National Liberation Army (ELN) launches a series of attacks across Colombia's Catatumbo region, killing at least 80 people and injuring hundreds of others, with an unknown number of people also reportedly being kidnapped. Thousands of people have fled their homes due to the fighting. The Colombian Army says that it has rescued dozens of people, while the government calls on the ELN to immediately cease their attacks. </text>
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    <text>The National Liberation Army (ELN) and FARC dissidents exchange heavy fire across the Catatumbo region del Catatumbo, Colombia, killing at least 80 people and injuring hundreds of others, with an unknown number of people also reportedly being kidnapped, after the ELN accused the FARC dissidents of killing civilians in the area. Thousands of people have fled their homes due to the fighting. The Colombian Army says that it has rescued dozens of people, while the government calls on the ELN to cease their attacks immediately. </text>
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      <text>Clashes between FARC dissident groups Raúl Reyes Front and Frontera Commands leave 12 militants dead in the municipality of Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo Department. </text>
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    <text>Clashes between FARC dissident groups Raúl Reyes Front and Frontera Commands leave twelve militants dead in Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo Department, Colombia. </text>
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      <text>Thirteen National Liberation Army militants are killed during a shootout with soldiers and police officers in Bolívar and Arauca, Colombia. </text>
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    <text>Thirteen National Liberation Army militants and a police lieutenant were killed during a serie of shootouts with soldiers and police officers in Bolívar and Arauca, Colombia. Other twelve militants were arrested during the operations.</text>
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    <text>FARC dissidents open fire against a prison convoy in Cauca Department, Colombia, killing two prison guards and serial killer Manuel Octavio Bermúdez. Six others are wounded. </text>
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      <text>The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of El Plateado, in the municipality of Argelia, Cauca, in an attempt to clear it from FARC dissidents. </text>
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      <text>The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of &quot;El Plateado&quot;, in the municipality of Argelia, Cauca, in an attempt to clear it from FARC dissidents. </text>
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    <text>The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of El Plateado in Argelia, Cauca Department, Colombia, in an attempt to clear the corregimiento of FARC dissidents. </text>
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      <text>Clashes between the revolutionary far-left armed groups ELN and FARC dissidents leave 23 people dead near Colombia’s border with Venezuela. </text>
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      <text>Clashes between the revolutionary far-left armed groups ELN and FARC dissidents leaves 23 people dead near Colombia’s border with Venezuela. </text>
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      <text>Clashes between the revolutionary far-left armed groups ELN and FARC dissidents leaves 27 people dead near Colombia’s border with Venezuela. </text>
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    <text>Clashes between the revolutionary far-left armed groups ELN and FARC dissidents in Arauca Department leave 23 people dead near Colombia’s border with Venezuela. </text>
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  <text>Colombian police arrest José Vitonco, an alleged guerrilla leader linked to FARC dissident leader Iván Mordisco, in connection with a deadly highway bombing in Cauca Department. </text>
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