Colombia confirms that bodies found in Tumaco come from an Ecuadorian couple

Screenshot of the video broadcast by the Sinisterra Front Oliver to the Ecuadorian government

The director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Colombia, Carlos Valdes confirmed today The two bodies found in a tomb in the department of Nariño (south-west) correspond to the Ecuadorian couple abducted last April in the border province of Esmeraldas.

" The identity of the young Katty Velasco Pinargote is confirmed with the support of the Technical Investigation Body. Oscar Villacís Gómez, the identity is confirmed by fingerprinting ", badured Valdes to journalists in Pasto, the capital of Nariño, on the border of Ecuador.

The corpses of Velasco and Villacís were found in a jungle area of ​​the municipality of Tumaco (Nariño), one of the most convulsive regions of Colombia because of the presence of different armed groups. illegal and proliferation of coca crops.

The director of forensic medicine explained that after the autopsies, it was determined that the killing of the Ecuadorians had occurred about two months ago because of "multiple injuries". at the "neck and thorax"

" The cause of death is acute anemia, secondary to the injury produced by these cuts in the blood vessels, the mode of death is a homicide of type of violent death ", Explained Valdes.

The authorities attributed this fact to the FARC dissident Walter Patricio Arizala Vernaza aka " Guacho ", also responsible for one month before the "FARC". kidnapping and subsequent killing of three members of a journalistic team from the newspaper El Comercio de Quito, whose remains were repatriated last week.

The director of forensic medicine stated that the studies will be given "exclusively" to the prosecutor's office of Colombia, since it is this entity that is responsible for investigating the facts.

The abduction of the Ecuadorian couple was informed on April 17 by the government of that country which disclosed At the present time a video showing Velasco and Villacís moored and guarded by men armed with rifles.

In the video, the couple says that it has nothing to do with the situation of law and order on Colombia's border with Ecuador and ask the president of that country, Lenin Moreno to help them come back to freedom. EFE

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