17 wounded in latest Colombia explosives attack

An apparent bomb attack in Colombia's restive southwest wounded 17 people Monday including three children and two police officers, authorities said. A device, probably a bomb attached to a motorcycle, exploded outside a police station in the town of Morales.

A seven-year-old girl was hospitalized with serious injuries, he said, and two police officers required treatment. Colombia is battling to extricate itself from six decades of armed conflict between leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug cartels and government forces.

There are hotspots of fighting in the country's northeast, northwest and southwest. Last week, four bomb attacks in two cities near Colombia's border with Venezuela injured six people, prompting officials to declare an overnight curfew. That attack was blamed on the ELN guerrilla group.