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A escape attempt was registered this Friday afternoon in the immediate vicinity of the Immediate Attention Center (CAI) of the San Mateo neighborhood, in the municipality of Soacha. A group of detainees started the flames inside the cells, seeking to generate an emergency situation to be able to flee the place.
The retained fire some highly flammable items such as pillows, mats and blankets, in order to generate the situation of chaos, without calculating that the real effect of the conflagration would end up affecting them.
Suddenly the entire facility was filled with smoke and amid the cries for help several residents of the Police station They went to the place with buckets of water, fire extinguishers and other elements aimed at smothering the flames. Some people even tried to break the bars of the dungeons, in order to prevent people from being affected by the smoke.
“Eleven of the people who were detained suffered first and second degree burns,” said Colonel César Ovidio Castro, commander of the Cundinamarca Police.
In the midst of the chaos, and the arrival of the relatives of some of the detainees looking for help, they appeared altercations with police officers, who tried to prevent the creation of an environment that would allow the escape of detainees, some with current sentences.
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The flames managed to be taken care of after members of the corps of firefighters of the municipality of Soacha.
As a result of the flames and smoke inside the police unit, eleven people had to be referred to the emergency service of the municipality’s Cardiovascular Hospital.
“We have the support of our technical body and judicial investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office,” said Castro.
In the images, captured by local inhabitants, and known by NoticiasRCN.com, you can also see how the same police officers used their bobbins to break the glass of the windows of the place and promote the exit of smoke, avoiding cases of suffocation.
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