Colombia car bomb kills one

A car bomb has exploded in a busy shopping complex in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin killing at least one person and wounding more than fifty others.

Television pictures showed firefighters and police tending the wounded amid wrecked and blazing cars.

No one has taken responsibility for the attack, which is suspected of being the work of urban militias belonging to one of the two main Marxist rebel armies in Colombia.

But a BBC correspondent there says the authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the bombing was part of an extortion campaign by street gangs who control much of Medellin.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service