INTERVIEW: Two deadly attacks in Colombia expose security vulnerabilities: analyst

Colombia is reeling from two attacks on its police and military, in what's been described as the country's bloodiest day in months.

Police guard the area damaged by a car bomb explosion outside an air force base in Cali, Colombia. Source: AAP, AP / Santiago Saldarriaga

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At least 18 people including civilians were killed in the two attacks in Colombia on Thursday local time (21 August).

Colombia’s President has blamed a dissident group of Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces.

For more on this group and why violence in Colombia appears to be on the rise, reporter Tys Occhiuzzi spoke to Elizabeth Dickinson, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group based in the capital Bogota.