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Colombia’s Armed Forces have blamed the highway bombing on dissident factions of a defunct leftist militant group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), led by Néstor Gregorio Vera Fernández, a militant leader better known by his nom de guerre “Iván Mordisco.”

FARC laid down its arms in 2016 and eventually disbanded after a peace agreement ended over 50 years of war with the Colombian government – a conflict that killed over 220,000 and displaced some 5 million Colombians.

However, some members of the militant group refused to engage in the peace process from the start. These dissident fighters – which include splinter groups who fight among themselves – have continued a low-level insurgency in some rural parts of Colombia.