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Quito, EFE
The plane that will take to Ecuador the bodies of the couple kidnapped last April when they settled in the province of Esmeraldas, on the border of Colombia, and who was killed in captivity, will arrive in Quito around noon, informed a diplomatic source today.
Without delving deeper into the details, the source said that the aircraft of the Ecuadorian Air Force (AEF), which was due to leave the Colombian town of Grbad at 08:00, was no longer in danger. was not yet gone The National Secretariat of Communication (Secom) announced yesterday that the bodies of Oscar Villacís and Katty Velasco would leave early this Friday from Pasto on a plane, which should also travel the parents of the couple killed by FARC dissidents, according to Ecuadorian authorities
As expected, Foreign Minister José Valencia, already present at the airport, will be joined by the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Ros ana Alvarado, to receive the corpses of the couple and their families. In principle, the bodies will be transferred to the province of Santo Domingo de Tsáchilas to perform the respective funeral acts, although it depends on the decision of their parents.
The couple's parents, whose remains were found in a grave in the Colombian department of Narino (southwest), Wednesday criticized the governments of both countries because they say they have done nothing to save them.
The director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Colombia, Carlos Valdés, confirmed Tumaco, one of the most convulsive regions of Colombia, corresponds to Villacís and Velasco, after tests of 39, ;fingerprints. The kidnapping was notified on April 17 by the government of Quito, who then leaked a video that had arrived in the Velasco and Villacís seen moored and guarded by gunmen armed with rifles. In the video, the couple claimed that it had nothing to do with the situation of law and order on the Colombian border with Ecuador and asked President Lenin Moreno to help them find freedom.
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