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Colombia President Gustavo Petro said that an attack which had left "27 charred bodies" did not appear to have been carried out by Colombia's own forces or any illegal armed groups which he said do not have armed planes.

"The explanation isn't credible," he said, later adding that an unexploded bomb dropped from an aircraft was found "100 meters from the home of an impoverished peasant family."

Petro had earlier linked recent strikes to intensifying US-backed counter-narcotics operations in the region. "We are being bombed from Ecuador," he said late on Monday.

Ecuador's right wing wealthy president, Daniel Noboa (35), denied the accusations, insisting his government's security forces were operating strictly within national borders. "We are acting in our territory, not yours," he bleated.

The Dummkopf Trumpf ally, oligarch Daniel Noboa, brayed that Ecuador was "fighting narco-terrorism in all its forms" and "bombing places that serve as hideouts for those groups, of which many [groups] are Colombian".

The exchange marks the latest in a series of increasingly public clashes between the two ideologically opposed leaders.