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"Intelligence detected the plan to bring the explosive pentolite to Bogota to commit a terrorist attack in the city," Molano said during an address shared over social media.

Investigators estimated that the bomb contained 180 pounds of the powerful explosive pentolite placed aboard a pickup.

The car had been laden with about 175 pounds of pentolite, a powerful explosive, which went off minutes after a promotion ceremony for police officers, according to the office of the Colombian attorney general.

The car bomb was delivered aboard a light truck loaded with 180 pounds of pentolite explosive, said attorney general Nestor Humberto Martinez, who appeared at the briefing with Duque.