A bomb detonated inside Centro Andino Mall, one of Bogota, Colombia’s high-end shopping centers, claimed the lives of three women including a French national and wounded 11 others. Enrique Penalosa, the mayor of Bogota, Colombia, called the incident, which appears to have taken place on the second floor of Centro Comercial Andino, a “cowardly terrorist attack.”

Local media reports that the mall has been evacuated and officials are at the scene investigating. With authorities on high alert for so-called “spoiler” attacks by armed actors opposing an ongoing peace process with Marxist FARC guerrillas, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Twitter he immediately had ordered National Police director Jorge Hernando Nieto to personally take charge of the investigation.
A suspected terrorist bomb explosion in an Andino shopping mall's ladies room in Bogotá, Colombia, kills three women and injures at least 11.