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At least eight people were killed and two others injured in an armed attack in the Colombian municipality of El Tarra, on the Venezuelan border reported Monday

According to preliminary drafts, a group of men opened fire after being introduced to a commercial establishment in the neighborhood of Villa Esperanza in the urban area of ​​?? 39; El Tarra, in the department of Norte de Santander.

"The preliminary information (indicates that) there are eight dead and two wounded" a source of the army who requested the reservation to AFP.

For the time being, authorities did not offer clues about the perpetrators or motives for this mbadacre.

"Absolute rejection of the attack in El Tarra, Norte de Santander, solidarity with the relatives of the victims and speedy recovery of the wounded, we pursue the perpetrators of this despicable act", writes the president Juan Manuel Santos in his story. Twitter

The wounded were transferred to hospitals although the severity of their injuries was not reported.

The local human rights office of the UN also condemned the homicide

"We condemn the mbadacre perpetrated in Catatumbo, El Tarra, and we hope that it will be clarified, investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible, "said the institution on Twitter

. the Venezuelan states of Zulia and Táchira concentrate the second largest amount of narco-cultures in the world after the city of Tumaco on the southern border with Ecuador.

There is a dissent from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia who did not accept the peace agreement signed in 2016 with this dissident guerilla.

In addition, gangs of paramilitary origin, groups of traffickers and members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) the last rebel organization recognized by the government and who is in peace talks in Cuba.

In Havana, the ELN delegation talks with representatives of the Colombian government He expressed his "public and categorical condemnation" of what he considered to be "paramilitary action".

"We demand a quick, independent and effective investigation to find those responsible for this mbad murder, which increases the state of anxiety that lives in this region," he said in a statement [19659003] Drug trafficking as a fuel the Colombian armed conflict of half a century rillas, paramilitaries, drug traffickers and state agents, with a record of eight millions of victims among the dead, missing and displaced

The director of the Colombian police, General Jorge Hernando Nieto, announced today offers a reward of up to 100 million pesos ( about $ 34,600) to anyone providing information that will clarify the murders in the Catatumbo area, on the Venezuelan border.