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Batfink Posted: Thu, Feb 19 2009 7:31 AM

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COLOMBIA'S military and law enforcement agencies suffered two airplane mishaps today including a plane blown apart on the tarmac by a grenade in the luggage.

The National Police plane was left cut in half on the tarmac of the Olaya Herrera airport in Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, and a notorious centre of the international drugs trade.

According to a police spokesman, a grenade carried by an officer that was boarding the plane accidentally exploded.

It wounded eight officers of the 27 that were on board but there are no further details of their injuries.

Also today  a Colombian air force intelligence aircraft with a crew of five or six crashed near the northwestern town of La Dorada.

 The fate of the crew was not immediately known, a military source said.

"We have had an accident with an AC-47 plane with the plate number FAC 1670 which was on a training mission and crashed'' just outside the town, the source said.

As to the crew "we do not know what there fate is,'' the source added.

 Full story at news.com.au

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