four men were killed in the rural area

On the afternoon of this Friday, in the rural area of ​​Jamundí, Valle del Cauca, four men were killed.

Andrés Felipe Ramírez, mayor of this municipality, confirmed the facts through his Twitter account.

The victims have wounds caused by gunshots, according to images released by the public.

The massacre occurred in “La Meseta, commune village,” Ramírez said.

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“Today Jamundí is in mourning. There are 4 lives that we lose and again we are news due to the violence. The challenge is to bring more opportunities to the countryside so that these episodes of violence are not recurrent in our municipality. solidarity, “added the president.

The massacre was confirmed after members of the Metropolitan Police and the National Army carried out verification tasks at the scene.

It should be noted that in the rural area of ​​Jamundí there is a presence of armed groups and dissidents from the Farc such as ‘Jaime Martínez’.

For now, the authorities have not provided a hypothesis about the massacre.

According to the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace, Indepaz, during 2020, in Colombia, 263 people have been killed in 66 massacres. Two of these massacres took place in Valle del Cauca.