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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Nine police officers were killed in the deadliest rebel attack this year when a roadside bomb planted by leftist rebels destroyed their passing truck on Wednesday, a police spokesman said.
The heavily armed police unit was supporting a team eradicating coca bushes, the base ingredient of cocaine, near Landazuri, 100 miles north of Bogota, Sgt. Alberto Cantillo, a police spokesman in Bogota, told The Associated Press.
Police said the bomb was planted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Latin America's oldest and most potent rebel insurgency, which helps finance itself through cocaine smuggling.
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