Four police officers were injured on Friday after protesters outside the US embassy in Colombia’s capital attacked security forces with arrows and makeshift explosives during a rally denouncing US President Donald Trump’s policies, local authorities confirmed, according to Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV English website.
Bogota Mayor Carlos Fernando Galan said “delinquents, some of whom were hooded, attacked the embassy with incendiary devices, explosives and arrows.” The officers, according to Galan, sustained injuries to the face, legs, and arms.
Images released by the defense ministry showed chaotic scenes near the embassy, including one officer with an arrow lodged in his arm.
The protest was organized by a group calling itself Congreso de los Pueblos (People’s Congress). Spokesperson Jimmy Moreno told AFP that the demonstration was meant to reject US interference in Latin America and condemn what he described as Washington’s complicity in “the genocide of Palestinians.”
MNA
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