In the last few hours, the authorities announced the identities of five of the seven victims of the massacre that left seven people dead in the El Hoyito villagein the Llanogrande sector, in Rionegro. These are people who arrived from various areas of the Atlantic Coast with the idea of working on the construction of a farm and who had been living in the area since the end of last year.
According to preliminary records, the identified victims of this massacre were Luis Guillermo Canoles Menco, Jesús Gabriel García Sarmiento, Luis Epinayu, Yensin Luis Fontalvo Buelvas and Marlon José Páez. So far the name of the other two victims has not been known, although their place of origin is known.
In context: Seven people were murdered on a farm in Rionegro, in Antioquia
Three of them arrived from the municipality of Campo de la Cruz, Atlánticoa municipality located 102 kilometers from Barranquilla, a journey that takes 1 hour and 52 minutes. The rest came from La Guajira and Cartagena.
According to the residents of the area, the people murdered inside this property were workers, that at no time did they give any indication that they engaged in behavior that compromised the safety of the community.
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“They were very hard-working people, who went from work to home and vice versa. And we never had any problems with them due to noise issues. and even less so that we have seen any strange behavior,” explained a resident of the sector.
For the full identification of the seven victims, this Wednesday night The bodies arrived at the Legal Medicine headquarters, in Medellínand a specialized body from Bogotá will be in charge of the forensic work to clarify what happened to these people.
According to researchers, At the end of last year, 29 people from different parts of Colombia arrived to work on the farm. and there were currently nine workers, all involved in the violent incident, since there was also a man in the house who was injured in one of his hands and another who was unharmed and who after escaping alerted the neighbors about what happened.
The commander of the Antioquia Police, colonel Carlos Andrés Martínez, stated that so far progress is being made in the investigations. to fully clarify the motives for this massacre, although the first hypotheses They would realize that it would be part of the dispute that is taking place in Eastern Antioquia between the Clan del Golfo, Clan Oriente and the El Mesa gang..
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To find the whereabouts of those responsible for this attack, it is estimated that there were ten people who arrived in two cars and a motorcycle, from the Government of Antioquia. A reward of up to 100 million pesos was offered.
