Another body is reported abandoned on a public highway in downtown Bogotá during Holy Week

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”.

For their part, some street vendors in the sector spoke out. “The way the bodies were found is due to microtraffic because it is known that around that park they sell a lot of vice. They get a plant, if they disappear it, they arrive and kill them because they look bad with the supplier,” said one salesman in dialogues with La FM.

At the beginning of this month, another body had also been found in the National Vote sector, which corresponds to the same sector of the city, after the authorities were alerted by the community, because a package they feared was an explosive had been abandoned.

RCN Radio reported that the alert was given due to the fear among the inhabitants of the city that a terrorist attack such as the one that occurred recently in the CAI of Arborizadora Alta, in the town of Ciudad Bolívar, south of Bogotá, will occur again, resulting in the death of two children and more of 30 injured.

In the face of the emergency, anti-explosive experts from the CTI arrived at the scene who were responsible for verifying the package that had been left under some garbage cans exactly on 12th street with carrera 16, as reported in the television news news RCN News.

Initially, to rule out that it had content that would detonate, they sent a robot and gave a new review, which confirmed that it was not a danger to the agents carrying out the verification.

But when they checked it manually, they got the horrifying surprise that it was the lifeless body of a person, according to what they consulted in the newspaper El Espectador in the CTI.

“The threat of explosive device was ruled out, but a lifeless body was found on the spot, the CTI cadaver inspection laboratory carries out a survey,” one of the investigators told that media outlet.

Police also indicated in that newspaper that the body was in black bags, which in turn were kept in a sack. The victim, they also reported in El Espectador, had signs of torture and was tied up.

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