Dozens killed in Colombia rebel attack

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Twenty-nine people have been killed in fighting after a police station in northern Colombia was attacked in what is the country's bloodiest incident this year.

Officials said that the dead in Wednesday's fighting included 17 police officers, 11 rebels and a civilian.

The violence comes two weeks after Alvaro Uribe, the president, renewed his commitment to breaking up the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), the country's largest and best-armed guerrilla group. Farc has been blamed for the attack.

Jorge Castro, the national police chief, said the police station at Tierradentro, in the northern department of Cordoba, was attacked in the early hours.

al Jazeera