Shocking moment Colombian gangster throws GRENADE at auto shop from the back of his motorcycle wounding 14 people
- Colombia officials have tied a grenade attack to a local gang's extortion efforts
- An explosive was tossed from a motorcycle Tuesday in Barranquilla
- At least 14 people, including a minor, suffered non-life threatening injuries
- The Barranquilla Metropolitan Police have a person of interest that it is looking into who leads a local gang and is currently in prison
- The government has offered a $14,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the two individuals who were on the motorcycle
Surveillance video shows two men aboard a motorcycle approaching a mechanic shop in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Tuesday before one of them dropped a grenade. At least 14 people, including a minor, were injured in the attack
The driver of a vehicle narrowly avoids a grenade explosion moments after it has been tossed on to a street in Barranquilla, Colombia, before it exploded
A man is tended to in Barranquilla on Tuesday moments after he was injured after a grenade was tossed from a motorcycl
A shop's security camera shows what appears to be two employees standing behind a counter when the attackers pull up to the front of the business.
Subsequently, one of the men drops the explosive device in the middle of the street as he and his accomplice take speed away.
Several seconds pass before a car drives by before the grenade went off right before motorcyclist approaches it.
Store employees seek cover moments after the grenade exploded on a busy sector in the Colombian port city of Barranquilla on Tuesday
Colombian Vice President Marta LucÃa RamÃrez visited the scene of Tuesday's grenade attack in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla, where 14 people, including a minor were injured. The government offered a reward of $50 million Colombian pesos, or $14,000, for information leading to the arrest of the two individuals who launched the attack.
The Barranquilla Metropolitan Police said it has a person of interest, who leads a local gang and is currently in prison, but refused to publicly identify the suspect's or criminal group's name.
Shortly after the explosion, the government offered a reward of $50 million Colombian pesos, or $14,000, for information leading to the arrest of the two individuals who launched the attack.
'We are going to dismantle these organizations that are extorting merchants and that are affecting Barranquilla's production sector,' Vice President Marta LucÃa RamÃrez said after visiting the scene of the attack.
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