2024-04-29 14:09:56
Five people were murdered, including a councilor and a singer of popular music, in two different events between Friday night and Saturday in a conflictive region in the southwest of Colombiathe authorities reported.
On Saturday afternoon, the councilor Jhon Fredy Gil He was shot in Jamundí, a town in the department of Valle del Cauca.
“This is a cowardly act that attacks democracy and our institutions,” reported the municipality’s mayor’s office on the social network X.
The left-wing politician, belonging to the indigenous MAIS party, was shot a dozen when he was in a restaurant, according to local media. Before becoming a councilor, Gil was spokesperson for a group of farmers growing coca leaves, marijuana and poppies.
The governor of Valle del Cauca, Dilian Toro, assured that three councilors have been murdered there this year and requested protection measures for the mayor of Jamundí, who has received death threats.
For its part, The musician Sebastián Muñoz died along with his DJ when they were attacked by gunfire in the municipality of Corinto, in the department of Cauca. In the same events, two other people died, Miller Hurtado, departmental secretary of Security, told Caracol Television.
Authorities launched an investigation into the murders. Muñoz was at the venue hired to give a private concert, according to a post on Instagram from his work team.
Cauca and Valle del Cauca are conflictive departments of Colombia, a country still immersed in an armed conflict despite the 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla.
Dissidents of that organization operate there and continue trafficking cocaine, as well as other drug trafficking groups.
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2024-04-29 14:09:56