Third child victim of brutal attack died in Chocó

San Francisco de Asís Hospital, in Quibdó, Chocó, confirmed Friday morning the death of Cristian Mena, the youngest under 11, victim of a gun and machete attack on April 21 with two other young people of 12 and 17 years old, killed on the spot.

According to the institution, the child who was in critical condition and in police custody after having had a hand and an ear amputated, suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest that claimed his life at dawn on April 23. Early reports indicated that he also had gunshot wounds and signs of torture.

In this regard, the Mediator, Carlos Camargo, said that “with deep sadness I received the news of the death of Cristian David Mena, 11, who was injured during the events of April 21 in Quibdó, Chocó. As an ombudsman, I hoped Cristian could recover, so that as a society we could give him a better future. His death should be a trigger for reflection on the need to protect Colombian children and young people. We cannot lose children to crime ”.

Mena had survived the attack because, according to one of her relatives, she could have played dead. However, Camilo Ramírez, inspector of the San Francisco de Asís hospital, pointed out on the day of the attack that the minor’s situation was critical. “He is going to the intensive care unit and depending on the intervention assessment that was done today, he will have to be sent or not to another party.”

According to Domingo Ramos, municipal representative, “this aberrant event occurred in the district of Buenos Aires, where the criminal gang “ Los Locos ” has influence, dedicated to micro-trafficking and that apparently he has an alliance with a criminal structure called “los Mexicanos”, which has a very strong presence in Quibdó ”.

The events occurred 36 hours after a security council was held in the city with senior members of the Public Force. In this fraction of time, there were five other homicides in the capital of Chocó, in addition, the Personería de Quibdó has warned against the disappearance of two other minors.

“Quibdó had never known such violence and Now the way they kill these people and these young people, it is that they got involved with certain children, and dismembered them, it is a very difficult situation ”, declared the person in charge of Noticias Caracol.

Due to the facts, the departmental and municipal authorities of Chocó announced a reward of up to 20 million of pesos.

“We are offering up to 20 million pesos to people who help us clarify the events that occurred in the Buenos Aires neighborhood, Los Claveles sector, where the lives of two minors were kidnapped and another was injured”, said the mayor of Quibdó, Martín Sánchez.

Hector Trujillo, The government secretary of Quibdó, indicated that the events constitute “barbarism” and that progress is underway in the investigations to achieve the rapid capture of those responsible.

“The police investigation you already have the nicknames and names of the three people who committed these events. It is barbarism, by God ”, the official said on W Radio.

The authorities who arrived on the scene to control the situation, determined by preliminary investigations that in this confrontation Members of the “Kennedy” combo and the “Clan del Golfo” participated. In addition, in other acts of violence against the public force in the town of Quibdó, during the last hours, the Epson Santos Quejada police patrol car assassination in the Las Américas district, in the Doce de Octubre sector.

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