BOGOTA -- An explosion injured at least 26 people in the Colombian capital Sunday, most of them police guarding a bullring that had been targeted by protests on reopening last month, officials said. The explosion struck near the Plaza Santamaria bullring in the Macarena district. Bullfighting ProtestsClosed in 2012 by the city's former leftist mayor Gustavo Petro, the bullring was ordered to reopen by Colombia's Constitutional Court. City Mayor Enrique Penalosa, who overflew the scene in a helicopter, said the area had been secured. The authorities have not said who was behind the explosion or whether anti-bullfight activists were suspected.

Source: The China Post February 20, 2017 16:03 UTC