Bomb near Bogota, Colombia bullring injures more than 30

One person died and more than 30 people were hurt Sunday, many of them police officers, after a bomb detonated down the street from a crowded bullfighting ring in Bogota, Colombia.

An explosion rocked the La Macarena neighborhood of Bogota on Sunday down the street from the Santamaria bullfighting ring just before the last fight of the season, killing a police officer and injuring 31.

There no claim of the bombing, but some speculated that a group opposed to bullfighting in Colombia -- the sport is controversial and has triggered violent protests in the past -- was responsible for the explosion.

"The terrorists won't intimidate us," Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa tweeted after the bombing. "And we're going to do everything necessary to capture them."

Hundreds of people protested Bogota's first bullfights in four years when they started at the Santamaria in January.

Sunday's bullfights were to be the last of the season when an apparently homemade bomb hidden under a sidewalk exploded. Thirty-one people were hurt in the blast, 10 of whom are police.

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