After the massacre that occurred after 10 pm on Tuesday, June 25, in an area known as El Hoyito, in the municipality of Rionegro (Antioquia), and which according to the latest report left seven people dead on a farm, it was known the testimony of one of the survivors of the armed attack, which would have been perpetrated by men who arrived on motorcycles and a vehicle to spread terror in the place.
A man, his son and another person emerged unharmed, and in the midst of the impact of witnessing such an act, he was able to mention a few words about the victims of the incident, which according to local media reports in the area indicate that all of them would be from of the Caribbean coast.
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“They killed them all”were the words that the local media managed to record MyOriente at the time the man reported to his relatives that he was alive after the massacre. In addition to the above, neighbors in the area commented: “We don’t understand what happened, they were good, hard-working boys.”
The witness, like the inhabitants of the municipality, woke up on Wednesday, June 26, quite affected by the impact of the events, and even more so by the way in which the men arrived, evoking dark episodes that were experienced, not only in the department. , but in several regions of the country, due to the massacres committed by illegal armed groups and paramilitaries, and due to this case they have Rionegro on maximum alert and on a security council to the authorities of the region.
For his part, another citizen who ran to help the people who were left alive told the same local media that “Some shots were heard, we went to help some people to see who was still alive, there were two wounded, and we were able to help them. “The rest were corpses.”
“I have called a security council, requesting the presence of the Governor, the Departmental Commander and the Secretary of Security of Antioquia, to put a stop to this wave of violence that has been affecting eastern Antioquia,” said Jorge Urrea, mayor of Rionegro, after the incident, through his X account.
In addition, Urrea described as ““The situation of public order that exists in Eastern Antioquia is regrettable.” and added that in light of the incident that occurred, “we continue to work with the Secretariat of Government and Police to clarify what happened. As part of the first actions being taken to find those responsible, a reward of $50 million was offered to anyone who provides information that could help find those responsible.
As the hours passed and after dawn on Wednesday, June 26, some of the identities of the victims left by the massacre perpetrated on a farm located in Alto del Perro in the Cabeceras village, in Rionegro, began to be known. , Antioquia, after 7:00 pm, according to witnesses.
According to preliminary versions at the point where the multiple crime was committed, the seven victims were from the Atlantic coast and had been working as workers in the area. According to what the local media learned in the field, “Three of the deceased were from La Guajira, one was from Cartagena and the rest from Barranquilla.”
Of the seven victims, it was learned that three of the men were known as Luis Guillermo, Gildardo and Jesús and after seven in the morning on Wednesday the 26th, through a Facebook post a user claimed that three of the victims were natives of the municipality of Campo de La Cruz.
This information would tie in with the three victims who are said to have been from Barranquilla. However, the investigations by the judicial experts of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Attorney General’s Office continue on the property on Wednesday morning in order to collect evidence that can contribute to the investigation that is currently underway. , and it is expected that in the coming days the arrest of those responsible may be found.
