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Machuca Massacre
Mass murder of Colombian civilians by far-left guerillas
The Machuca massacre (Spanish: La Masacre de Machuca) was a massacre that took place in the Colombian village of Machuca, near Segovia, Antioquia. Guerillas belonging to the National Liberation Army (ELN) dynamited an oil pipeline which caused a spreading fire to the village. Seventy people lost their lives, many of them children.