BOGOTA, Colombia—A car bomb exploded at a police academy in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Jan. 17, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 20, in an attack that prompted fears of a return to the country’s violent past.
According to authorities, the car broke through checkpoints onto the grounds of the General Santander Police Academy in the south of the capital before it exploded, shattering windows of apartments in the vicinity.
