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BOGOTA - Colombia's deputy education minister was wounded today when a small letter bomb exploded inside his office, police and a witness said.
"We thought it was something from nearby construction, but then we saw the deputy minister with his face bleeding when they took him out of his office, and we realized it was an attack," the witness told Reuters.
A police official said he had been taken to a police hospital in Bogota.
The deputy minister, Gabriel Burgos, who had been part of the team that negotiated the end of a recent teaching union strike, was wounded in the face and hands. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
- REUTERS
