A minor disappeared on the hill of Monserrate

One of the most visited places in Bogotá by citizens and tourists during this Holy Week, is the hill of Monserrate. However, this Good Friday, a child under the age of 12 disappeared, between the Caracol and Santuario sectors, according to the Bogotá Civil Defense.

Colonel Diogenes Serrano, director of Civil Defense in Bogotá, in dialogues on Blu Radio's Morning News, reported that the minor identified herself as Victoria José Díaz.

In addition, the director of the Civil Defense made a series of recommendations for people who are going to climb the hill, “you have to be very aware of the children and not let them go.”

Colonel Diogenes stressed that more than 10,000 people have already climbed to Monserrate. And he warned that although the pedestrian crossing is enabled until noon, the cable car and funicular will continue to operate.

A new macabre discovery was made by the authorities in the center of the Colombian capital, where they found a body in the vicinity of 26th Street with Carrera 30.

According to the television news program Citynoticias, on the local channel City T.V., the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá confirmed the location of the body without life and according to accounts of some witnesses who informed the authorities, it would correspond to that of a man who was tied up.

Colonel Sandra Lancheros, commander of the police of the town of Teusaquillo, said in that news that the Criminal Investigation Section (Sijín) and the Attorney General's Office were in charge of the investigation into this case. While the body is already in Legal Medicine.

This is in addition to that of the location, last Palm Sunday, of two more bodies inside plastic bags in the vicinity of Plaza España, also in the center of the city.

The commander of the Metropolitan Police, General Eliecer Camacho, assured that these events would be related to microtrafficking.

A waste picker from the area found the bodies and alerted the authorities, who arrived to carry out the survey and inspection of the site.

“Yesterday there was the murder of two people and the town of Mártires more precisely in the area of Plaza España. These persons were found by the police units in two bags and which were subsequently verified by the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor's Office,” explained the senior officer.

In addition, General Camacho mentioned that: “According to the work we have in the area of intelligence, it could be a retaliation between criminal groups as a result of damage being made against the structures in this locality, in order to establish those areas of fear where they have been carrying out activities criminals, such as drug trafficking”.

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