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Colombian authorities are investigating the murder of 17-year-old twins who had received threats and whose bodies were found in the municipality of Tarazá, in the department of Antioquia (northwest), the police reported this Sunday.
The victims were identified as Wílmer Andrés and Edil Alfonso Ramírez Martínez, who according to their relatives had been missing since last Thursday in Tarazá, a town located in the troubled Bajo Cauca region, some 400 kilometers north of Medellín, the regional capital.
The Antioquia Police Commander, Colonel Ever Yovanni Gómez Reyes, explained to journalists that relatives of the Ramírez brothers assure that the youths had received threats from an armed group.
“On July 15, the parents of the victims activated the evacuation route with the companion of the Municipal Ombudsman and other government entities for the departure of their children from the municipality (Tarazá) to the city of Medellín, since these young people had apparently received threats from subjects belonging to an armed group, “the officer told reporters.
However, the young people recently returned to the town and, according to the Secretary of Government of Tarazá, Deibyson Montero, told RCN Radio, “they went to talk with the person to withdraw the complaints, despite the fact that the routes were activated from the institutions ( evacuation) “.
He added that “when they left the office, they were no longer heard from, they just didn’t get to the place where they worked with their father in a refrigeration equipment maintenance shop.”
This is the third violent event that occurs in Antioquia in less than a week, since three young people were massacred last Sunday in the town of Venice and on Friday another three suffered the same fate in the municipality of Andes.
The murder of the twins occurred at a time when Colombia was shocked by nine massacres that occurred in the last three weeks that left 43 dead, many of them young, in the departments of Nariño, Valle del Cauca, Arauca, Antioquia, Cauca and Norte de Santander.
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