At least 13 people were killed in two separate blasts which occurred Sunday in Colombia's northwestern province of Antioquia and the southwestern province of Cauca, police said.
At least six people, most of them children, died when a household gas container exploded in downtown Chigorodo in Antioquia. Three adjacent houses and a supermarket were seriously damaged in the blast.
Preliminary investigations showed that it was an accident, local authorities said.
Also on Sunday, seven people were killed and 12 others injured when an explosive device exploded in a pub in Corinto, Cauca province.
A group of armed men riding in a taxi or on motorcycles threw the device into the pub believed to be a stronghold of the country 's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), local police said. The blast killed four people while three others were shot dead by the gunmen.
Investigations got under way and the right-wing paramilitaries were suspected of being responsible for the attack, police said.
The FARC has been fighting the country's right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), to gain control of some parts of the country.
(People's Daily June 3, 2002)
