Colombia's Defense minister leads extraordinary security meeting after drone attack

Colombia on Friday promised to counter the threat from "desperate" armed groups after twin guerrilla attacks killed 19 people and deepened the country's worst security crisis in decades.

Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez huddled with top security officials in Cali, where a truck bomb exploded on a busy street killing six and wounding 60 on Thursday afternoon. Just hours before the Cali attack, another guerrilla group in the northwest of the country used rifles and drones to down a police helicopter, leaving 13 officers dead.

Sanchez emerged from Friday's meeting announcing "Operation Sultana", which he said would "neutralize the terrorist threat" and "protect Cali and its surrounding area from any terrorist attack." The minister provided few details about the operation, but said it involved bolstering a unit already tasked with finding and capturing high-value targets.