Colombia demands Cuba hand over ELN 'criminals' after blast

Colombia Saturday demanded that Cuba hand over ELN rebels who were in Havana for peace talks, after a deadly car bombing Bogota blames on the group.

Conservative President Ivan Duque urged Communist-ruled Cuba -- a host and one of the guarantors of the peace process -- to send home National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels who were in Havana.

On Friday, the government blamed the leftist ELN for the bombing of a police academy in Bogota that killed 20 people as well as the attacker, and dealt a body blow to the peace process.

Duque then announced that he was reinstating arrest warrants for 10 ELN members who are part of the group's delegation to the Cuba talks.

The talks -- started with his predecessor -- were aimed at ending more than five decades of insurgency by the Marxist-inspired insurgents.

Duque said that Cuba must not protect the rebels.