Colombia VP Marquez says security foiled assassination attempt
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- 28 Mar 2023
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Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez, who was elected on a history-making ticket in August, has said her security detail has foiled an assassination attempt close to her home.
On Twitter on Tuesday, Marquez, the country’s first Afro-Colombian vice president, said her security had carried out “the deactivation and destruction of a high-capacity explosive device” in the road leading to her family home in the village of Yolombo in Colombia’s southwest.
Marquez said the device contained more than seven kilogrammes (15.4lbs) of explosive devices and involved “a plastic bag containing a high-powered explosive substance made of ammonium nitrate, powdered aluminium and … nails”.
She added her security agents discovered the explosive after reports of suspicious behaviour by “outside elements” in the area.
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