Identify the first victims of the massacre of five people in San Marcos, Sucre

On the night of this Saturday, in the Caño Caimán sector, department of Sucre, five people were killed in a new act of violence, apparently, by the holders of a property located between the municipalities of San Marcos and San Benito

According to a report by the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (INDEPAZ), there are already 68 massacres in 2020, cut off to October 20.

General Juan Carlos Ramírez, commander of the Seventh Division of the Army, revealed that officials from the Office of the Prosecutor accompanied by troops from the Army, Air Force and the Police were mobilized to the scene of the events, where urgent actions are being carried out by the judicial authorities.

“The public forces carry out military and police operations, coordinated and joint, in order to protect the population of the region”General Ramírez said.

The Justice & Rights Collective, which represents victims in Bolívar, denounced that among the fatal victims is a lawyer who defended the interests of the peasants who were the object of the fatal attack and an indigenous leader from the Viloria community.

The military force indicated that the troops are already on the scene, safeguarding the scene and searching for those responsible for the massacre.

Apparently, the victims were at the Caracoles farm and the armed men who fired at them arrived there.

The first report that was known of the case was given around 8:00 on Saturday night, when the National Police received a complaint at the San Marcos station from a woman who alerted about the homicide of her relatives.

Since then, the Sucre Public Force began the coordination for the displacement to the area that is difficult to access because it is surrounded by many bodies of water and from which they still cannot establish which municipality of Sucre or Córdoba it belongs to since it is border with Ayapel.

The authorities would have traveled by river through the sector known as Caño de Rabón, in the municipality of San Benito Abad.

The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation of Sucre, in charge of inspecting the bodies in the company of the Judicial Police (Sijin), found them both on the Los Caracoles farm and on the banks of Caño Caimán, which according to a witness released many of the Indians present to save their lives.

At the first site, that is, in Los Caracoles, the Judicial Police found the remains of three people, but at the moment only identified Lacides Coachman Alba, 47 years old, a native of Ayapel, Córdoba, but residing in San Marcos.

For its part, on the banks of the Cayman channel were the corpses of Darwin Rafael De Hoyos Wood, 42, from the municipality of San Marcos, and the lawyer Archimedes Getulio Centanaro Carriazo, 50, also a native of the municipality.