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Colombia confronted with two massacres in one weekend
by Jake Kincaid February 18, 2019
Nine people were killed in two massacres in northern Colombia on Saturday.
The first reported massacre took place in Cucuta where four men on two motorcycles open fired on a group of men leaving a home. Two men were killed immediately, the other three died later in the hospital from grave injuries.
An anonymous police source told newspaper El Tiempo that one of the victims and two suspects were believed to be Venezuelans.
“The primary hypothesis is that it was related to the selling of contraband on the border, and the illegal selling of food and medicine” stolen in the neighboring country that is suffering a shortage of food and medicine, according to the anonymous source.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-confronted-with-two-massacres-in-one-weekend/