Colombia’s Petro accuses Ecuador of bombing near border
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Leaders of Colombia and Ecuador trade allegations after Gustavo Petro says 27 charred bodies found on country’s border.
Bogota, Colombia – Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that 27 charred bodies were discovered on his country’s joint border with Ecuador, just one day after suggesting the Ecuadorean military may have bombed Colombian territory.
“The bombings along the Colombia-Ecuador border do not appear to be the work of armed groups—they don’t have aircraft—nor of the Colombian security forces. I did not give that order,” wrote Petro in a post on X on Tuesday morning.
The accusation comes amid a US-backed Ecuadorean military campaign against armed groups in the region launched earlier this month; Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa maintained that all strikes have occurred within his country’s borders.
The dispute began during a cabinet meeting on Monday night, where Petro speculated about the origins of a bomb which he said was “dropped from an aeroplane” near Colombia’s southern border with Ecuador.
“We’re going to thoroughly investigate the circumstances – it happened very close to the border with Ecuador – which somewhat confirms my suspicion, but we need to investigate thoroughly: they’re bombing us from Ecuador, and it’s not the armed groups,” said the president.
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