Farc rebels attack Colombia pipelines

Attack: Farc blows up two pipelines

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By News Wires

 22 January 2013 19:50 GMT

Colombia's leftist Farc guerrillas have blown up two southern oil pipelines after the end of a rebel ceasefire, according to a report.

A unilateral two-month truce declared by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) at the start of peace talks with the Colombian government ended on Sunday without an extension. The guerrillas wanted a bilateral ceasefire.

President Juan Manuel Santos' administration has said it will not stop military operations against the Marxist rebels, who have been fighting successive Colombian governments since the 1960s, until a final peace deal is reached.

In the first attack after the end of the truce, Farc guerrillas dynamited a section of the Transandino pipeline on Sunday in the jungle-covered…

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