FARC guerrillas bomb railway of top Colombia coal miner Cerrejon

Colombia's biggest coal producer, Cerrejon, said a bomb attack on its railway on Sunday partially derailed a train carrying coal to port and damaged the track, but exports would continue as normal using stocks held at its privately-owned port.

The early-morning attack, which a military source told Reuters was carried out by the country's main rebel group, the FARC, was the latest in a spate of explosions in the last week blamed on the guerrillas and targeting oil and gas pipelines.

The railway owned and used exclusively by Cerrejon, carried 32.7 million metric tons of coal from its mine in La Guajira province to its port, Puerto Bolivar in 2012, the company said. Cerrejon is a joint venture between Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata.

A Cerrejon team was working with the security forces to secure the area where the explosion took place and carry out necessary repairs to re-open the line, a company statement said.

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