Colombia's violence causes more displacement, explosives' victims - ICRC

FILE PHOTO: Lorenzo Caraffi, head of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Colombia, reacts during a news conference in Bogota, Colombia March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Surging violence in Colombia caused the number of people internally displaced, forced to restrict their movements and injured or killed by explosives to hit the highest in five years in 2021, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.

The South American country's internal armed conflict has burned for almost six decades, leaving at least 260,000 dead and millions displaced, and fighting continues despite the signing of a peace deal between the government and the demobilized guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016.