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The director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Colombia, Carlos Valdés stated that in 72 hours the results of autopsies performed on two bodies found in the south of the country will be determined in order to determine if corresponds to an Ecuadorian couple kidnapped in the border province of Esmeraldas.
"As in other cases, we expect that in 72 hours or less, except in very special circumstances that may arise anyway, in our routine we managed to get results before 72 hours, "said the official at Radio Caracol
.The Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Tuesday that it had received information from Colombia on the discovery of human remains." match "to Katty Velasco Pinargote and Oscar Villacís Gómez, whose disappearance was reported by the government of that country last April.
The bodies were found in a jungle neighborhood of the Colombian municipality of Tumaco, in the department of Nariño, the border is the Ecuador
The kidnapping was attributed to the dissident of FARC Walter Patricio Arizala Vernaza, aka " Guacho" ] also allegedly responsible for the captivity and murder of three members of a journalistic team of the newspaper El Comercio, whose remains have been repatriated last week.
Valdes, who is in Pasto, the capital of Nariño, where the corpses, said that with other judicial officials are " very pending " necropsies, process " which started this Wednesday. "
"We will be vigilant with loved ones, to explain what happened, how the bodies were found and once we talked with the families, because we will be able to go public, "explained Valdés
. " very serious " of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, "applies" with all the science of rigor and in these cases the most informative element we can have to handy and that we do more routine is the molecular study del DNA ".
According to Valdés, the high degree of decomposition of bodies made identification tasks difficult, for which all protocols are applied in order to be 100% certain. 19659007] Before leaving Ecuador for Colombia, Ana Velasco, Katty's sister, said that she was traveling in the hope that the body found did not match that of her parent.
" We travel in the hope of being my sister ," says Ana, 26, who settles in Colombia with two of her sisters and her mother.
She insists that the authorities assured them that there was no " confirmed " about the found bodies.
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