BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Two police officers were killed Sunday in northeast Colombia in an attack that authorities blamed on the National Liberation Army, a Marxist guerrilla force active since the 1960s.

President Gustavo Petro condemned the killings of a police superintendent and a sub-superintendent in Cúcuta on X, warning that he will increase the number of troops present along the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

The director of the Colombian National Police, Gen. William Ospina, said on social media that there were two “terrorist attacks” in the department of Norte de Santander. One attack claimed the lives of the officers, and in another neighborhood, two soldiers were wounded, he said.

Colombian media outlets published images of the area where the explosion occurred, showing a damaged ro

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