Colombia: Councilor who suffered attack hours before taking office dies

Eliecid Ávila Ávilacouncilor of the Colombian municipality of Tulúa (southwest), died in the early hours of Tuesday after suffering an attack the day before, a few hours before taking up a seat in the local authority for the third time, authorities reported.

“Councilor Eliecid, we regret to inform you, lost his life. There is an ongoing investigation by the Police, with its intelligence team (…) We have already identified the perpetrator of the murder“, said the director of the institution, general Guilherme Salamancafor journalists.

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The killer, according to the police officer, is apparently “a minor person who unfortunately was instrumentalized by the crime in Tulúa”.

The attack occurred in that municipality that is part of the department of Cauca Valley when Ávila was celebrating the New Year with his family in front of his brother’s house.

“Two subjects arrive at that location and without saying a word they open fire on the officer”, said this Monday the commander of the Valle del Cauca Police, colonel Oleskyenio Florez.

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Therefore, the councilor, who works in the Conservative PartyIt was taken “to one of the city’s clinics”, where he died this Tuesday.

According to him Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), a faction of Central General Staff (EMC), the biggest dissident of the old FARC; La Oficina, the largest criminal group in that municipality, and other local gangs.

Source: Elcomercio

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