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bomb attack on Friday on a military base in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, injured two people and set off a string of attacks in the Valle del Cauca and Cauca departments. According
May elections The death toll in a weekend highway bombing in [Colombia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia) has risen to 20, with another 36 people injured, amid a surge of violence ahead of presidential elections next month
bombing as "indiscriminate". "Cauca cannot continue to face this barbarity alone," he wrote. On Sunday, he said in an update that 15 women and five men had been killed in the attack, which left
May presidential election in which crime is expected to be one of the top voter concerns. [![Election posters for FARC candidate Luis Albán, who is campaigning for a seat in Colombia’s congress
bombing on a major road at the weekend, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the country’s history. The attack was carried out by one of the most powerful Farc dissident groups
Cauca region has said. Governor Octavio Guzman said on Monday that the death toll included 15 women and five men. There were also 36 people injured, including three who remained in intensive care