Curfew imposed in Colombian port city after seven bombings
A night-time curfew has been imposed in Colombia's main port Buenaventura after seven bombings rocked the city on Friday and Saturday, injuring 23 people.

The attacks were targeted at a police station and several commercial districts. Police said the attacks began on Friday evening in The Oasis restaurant, which was wrecked in the blast.

Twenty-three people including at least seven teenagers were wounded in the explosions, and another two bombs were defused by the police on Saturday.

"The victims of this miserable, criminal, terrorist act were the poor people of Buenaventura," said provincial governor Angelino Garzon after the incident. "But we will not let this paralyze us."

The authorities blamed the bombings on the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) rebels seeking revenge for the killing of a regional guerrilla commander early this month.

As Colombia's most strategically important hub for the export of drugs and the import of arms, Buenaventurain is harassed by clashes between guerrillas and paramilitaries fighting to control drug trafficking routes through the port.

Thousands of people have been killed in a four-decade-old guerrilla war involving rebels and right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia, the world's biggest cocaine producer.