According to INDEPAZ’s Conflicts and Human Rights Observatory, this is the 32nd massacre committed since January to date.

It detailed that the victims of this event were intercepted when they were traveling in a truck, subsequently they were murdered and their bodies were abandoned in the area tied up and with gunshot wounds.

This human rights organization explained in a bulletin that the identity of the victims has not been recognized so far.

It added that the Ombudsman’s Office issued an early warning for Argelia, Balboa and El Tambo municipalities, in which it mentions that armed clashes occurred in inhabited areas generate a feeling of constant anxiety among the civilian population.

The escalation of warlike actions undertaken by illegal armed groups is motivated by interests of control of this geographic point that forms a strategic corridor to the Pacific, INDEPAZ added.

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