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Armed men came to a public establishment and fired indiscriminately at the people who were chatting there, leaving a balance of between 5 and 7 people killed, as well as other wounds that were transferred to the municipality hospital, the media said.
The radio frequency clarified that said information is unofficial and that, at the time of issuing the report, in the early hours of Sunday, no authority had ruled on the incident that occurred in southern Cauca.
However, the station added, the department’s government secretary, Luis Angulo, said that although he does not know what happened, the authorities went to the area where the massacre occurred in order to verify the complaints about.
The local journalist Rubén Zuñiga published a video on his Twitter account in which the moment in which some of the wounded are helped by the community would be evidenced.
#LAST MINUTE / A heavily armed illegal armed group arrived tonight to the village of El Mango in Algeria, #Cauca and fired indiscriminately at citizens who were in a commercial establishment. There is talk of 8 dead people. Info in development. pic.twitter.com/mYfreOARky
– Rubén D. Zuñiga (@ Ruben723) November 22, 2020
For its part, activist Juan Camilo Caicedo denounced that among the mortal victims there is a social leader.
A new MASSACRE is registered in Colombia, 5 people are murdered in El Mango, Algeria, Cauca. Among the victims is the Libyan leader Chilito.#We are massacring to the indifference of the president @IvanDuque pic.twitter.com/hpH9bVtAuP
– JUANCA (@JUANCAELBROKY) November 22, 2020
The Peace and Reconciliation Foundation also spoke about it, through its Twitter account, where he commented on a video that would correspond to the denounced events and which we share below (We recommend discretion due to the crudeness of the images):
#URGENT l What happened tonight in Algeria, Cauca, would have been a massacre @IvanDuque @MissionONUCol @FiscaliaCol https://t.co/CP1hjwGqHY
– Peace & Reconciliation (@parescolombia) November 22, 2020
The department of Cauca, where various illegal armed groups such as criminal gangs, dissidents from the Farc and Eln commit crimes, is experiencing a strong wave of violence that, only in 2020, has left 11 massacres (without adding that of this Saturday 21 November), according to the Institute for Development and Peace, Indepaz.
Less than 2 weeks ago, also in Algeria, Cauca, a massacre was perpetrated that left 3 people dead, including a minor.
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