Five people, including a 15-year-old girl, were shot dead in southwestern Colombia on Sunday by armed groups.
Six other people were injured. A military commander blamed a group of rebels for the attack.
The government signed a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s left wing (Farc) five years ago, but some Farc members who disagreed with the agreement broke away and remained active.
Army officials said several gunmen opened fire on “a public place” in a rural area outside the city of Tumaco. Local media describes the place as a disco.
Two people were killed at the scene and three others later died at the hospital. Local media reported that one of the dead was a 15-year-old girl.
Major General Varlvaro Vicente Perez of the Colombian army has said the fault was a group of former Farc dissident rebels calling themselves Colonel Uriel Rendon.
In July, dissident Farc rebels claimed responsibility for an attack on a helicopter carrying President Ivan Duque and the placement of a bomb outside a military base in the northern city of Cucuta, in which 36 people were injured.
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