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Bogotá woke up this Thursday with a desolate panorama – after having lived a night of protests and vandalism that took the lives of seven people – 5 in the Capital and 2 in Soacha – according to the National Police.
Similarly, 140 injured people were reported. 87 policemen, of them 81 in Bogotá, 3 in Soacha and 3 in Madrid, Cundinamarca. At the same time, 53 civilians were wounded, mostly with “strong elements.”
The bodies of the deceased are being transferred to Legal Medicine.
“In a first version, these people died in the middle of the riots in front of the facilities of the Immediate Attention Centers, CAI, therefore, it is not possible at this time to point out with certainty how they died“, said a source of the Police to EL TIEMPO.
Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo reiterated this morning that up to 50 million pesos are offered for information that makes it possible to identify the people involved in the homicides and acts of vandalism, “and we are willing to increase the number, but these deaths cannot remain in impunity,” he said.
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General Gustavo Alberto Moreno, director in charge of the Police, delivered a balance on the acts of vandalism registered last night. He confirmed that 49 CAIs were vandalized, – 45 in Bogotá, 3 in Soacha and one in Cali, Valle del Cauca. In the Capital 17 CAI were cremated.
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The Police indicates, in the report known by this newspaper that 77 vehicles were affected. 25 Transmilenio buses were vandalized and 9 incinerated. In addition, 41 SITP buses, vandalized and two incinerated.
In addition, 8 police motorcycles were affected: 4 incinerated in the CAI Molinos, south of Bogotá. In addition to 9 damaged Police vehicles. In Castile, they incinerated a patrol.
Bogotá will reinforce the number of policemen with 750 uniformed officers, and another 850 will arrive from other areas of the country. Similarly, To avoid new excesses, 300 soldiers from the Army’s 13th Brigade will support the work of the Police in the country’s capital.
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