Heavily armed members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group held a funeral parade in honor of an explosives expert who died after a failed attack on a police station, Colombian outlets reported on Monday.

The FARC funeral procession passed through towns in the southern department (state) of Huila, shooting into the air, throwing fireworks, and blasting music, eliciting outrage from local communities.

The Colombian newspaper El Tiempo explained that the FARC members held the procession in honor of 21-year-old Emanuel Marín, a dangerous explosives expert also known as El Flaco (“The Skinny”).

Marín was a member of the “Isaías Pardo” front, a south-western Colombia FARC faction under the broader leadership of Néstor Gregorio Vera

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