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		</div><p>A Colombian police officer has been killed and up to 31 people injured after a home-made bomb exploded near Bogota&#8217;s bullring today.</p>
<p>The device, whose loud explosion shattered windows in nearby flats, appears to have been left in a sewer outside a new youth hostel popular with foreign backpackers.</p>
<p>It was detonated a few hours before a scheduled bullfight as police in riot gear were congregating ahead of a demonstration by animal-rights activists.</p>
<p>Last month, police fired tear gas and arrested scores of youth demonstrators to control mobs that physically attacked spectators attending the first bullfight in the capital in four years.</p>
<p>More recent bullfights since have gone off without a hitch and today&#8217;s spectacle at Bogota&#8217;s 1930s-era brick bullring was the last of the two-month season.</p>
<p>Juan David Gonzalez, part-owner of El Pit youth hostel, said his two dozen guests were shaken by the blast but otherwise unaffected.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We were all inside having breakfast when we heard the blast. Everyone was in shock but luckily nobody inside was hurt,&#8221;</i> Mr Gonzalez told the Associated Press.</p>
<p>Mayor Enrique Penalosa said from the blast scene that a police officer identified as John Herrera was killed during the explosion.</p>
<p>He refused to say how many people were injured but said they had been evacuated to three nearby hospitals.</p>
<p>Earlier, the city government said on Twitter that 31 people were injured, two of them seriously.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The terrorists won&#8217;t intimidate us,&#8221;</i> Mr Penalosa said, adding that today&#8217;s bullfight would take place as planned despite the incident. <i>&#8220;We are going to do all that&#8217;s necessary to capture them.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>A video taken at the time of the explosion and broadcast on local TV shows a cloud of debris knocking down a phone cabling box and quickly engulfing a busy street corner as cars and pedestrians moved by.</p>
<p>Bogota&#8217;s previous leftist mayor outlawed bullfighting in 2012.</p>
<p>The constitutional court later overturned the ban, ruling it was part of Colombia&#8217;s cultural heritage and could not be blocked.</p>
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