Bogota, Colombia ? Colombia’s government blamed leftist rebels Saturday for a car bomb that ripped through an exclusive social club, killing 32 people — including six children — and injuring 162 in the worst terrorist attack in Bogota in more than a decade.

The bomb, which gutted the 11-story club Friday evening, was planted on the third floor inside a parking garage and was packed with 330 pounds of explosives, officials said.

The attack was a shock to capital residents accustomed to a war, now in its fourth decade, fought mostly in the countryside. Vice President Francisco Santos said he “had no doubt” the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was responsible.

He blamed the rebel organization for adopting the tactics of the drug lords who plague the country as well.

“Before, what the narcoterrorists used, now (the rebels) use without any concerns of conscience,” Santos said.

Not since drug lord Pablo Escobar unleashed a bloody campaign to avoid extradition to the United States had Bogota seen an attack of Friday’s magnitude. With Escobar’s death in 1993 and the subsequent breakup of Colombia’s large drug cartels, the rebels inherited control of the country’s cocaine trade.

The FARC recently vowed to take its drug-financed war against the state to the cities and to attack the country’s elite — people like the businessmen and politicians who frequent El Nogal.

Bogota, Colombia, police officers inspect the front of El Nogal club, which was rocked by a powerful car bomb Friday night. Saturday, a government official said leftist rebels were to blame for the blast, which killed more than 30 people.

The rebel group did not claim responsibility for the attack. Local media outlets, however, speculated that a message posted on a Web site used frequently by the rebels contained a veiled warning.

The message, signed by an unknown group and posted Thursday, complained bitterly of President Alvaro Uribe’s hardline government, and of the prominent people who support it. The message ends: “We’ll see on the 7th at six.” The bomb exploded Friday, Feb. 7, shortly after 8 p.m.

The death toll increased from 25 to 32 on Saturday afternoon, according to the Bogota coroner’s office. An additional 162 people were injured, officials said.

On Saturday, firefighters searched through the rubble of the club, one of Colombia’s most exclusive.