Colombia bomb blast kills 10 outside disco

A REMOTE-CONTROLLED bomb on a motorcycle exploded as revellers left a disco in a southwestern city early yesterday, killing 10 people and wounding 48 others, army officials said.

The bomb went off outside the disco around 4am in the upscale Zona Rosa district of nightclubs and bars in Florencia, 200 miles southwest of the capital, Bogota. A nine-year-old boy and two policemen were among the dead.

General Luis Alberto Ardila, the commander of the army's 2nd Division in Florencia, said he suspected the country's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), were responsible for the bombing.