FARC Executes 52-Y/O Woman With "Necklace
Bomb"
5/16/00- Reuters reports that Colombian FARC guerillas
attached a flexible IED around the neck of 52-year-old Elvira Cortes Gil.
An army spokesman claims that Cortes Gil was singled out in retaliation
for her refusal to pay extortion money. The guerilla's broke into the
woman's home and secured a pressure-release activated device around her
neck with silicon glue.
The device exploded six hours later while police and army bomb
technicians were attempting to render the device safe. The explosion
killed Gil instantly. A police bomb technician, Yair Lopez, and an
unidentified soldier both lost their left arms in the blast. Yair Lopez
died later at the hospital.
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