In the Urrao cemetery they recovered eight bodies that would be missing - Medellín - Colombia

The Unit for the Search of Persons Considered Missing -UBPD- recovered eight unidentified bodies in the cemetery from the municipality of Urrao, southwest Antioquia, which could correspond to persons who disappeared in the context of the armed conflict between 2009 and 2011.

During the humanitarian action, in which the semicircular gallery of the cemetery was intervened, relatives of the victims, the San José de Urrao parish, the municipal hospital and signatories of the Peace Agreement participated to provide relevant information for the search.

“These humanitarian actions -which include the collection and analysis of information; the recovery of the bodies, the participation of the victims and the promotion of their identification- aim to contribute to the satisfaction of the right to the truth about the fate and whereabouts of the disappeared persons of the armed conflict, and to the reparation of the people who are looking for them ”, added Luz Marina Monzón Cifuentes, director of the Search Unit.

As part of the extrajudicial investigation of this intervention, starting in May 2021, the UBPD conducted interviews with information contributors and accessed files and autopsies, as well as burial and death records, in which decisive data was recorded for the investigation. search for the disappeared persons, including the dates of entry of the bodies to the cemetery and physical characteristics of the victims.

The entity reported that from the crossing and analysis of the information it was possible to establish the identity hypotheses of five of the bodies, one of which would correspond, according to its biological characteristics, to a female person who died in 2010. The ages of the victims ranged in age from 20 to 35 at the time of their deaths.

The bodies of the victims had signs of violence, mainly multiple fractures that correspond to possible wounds caused by a firearm projectile. This information was recorded in the autopsy records and some of the characteristics were verified by the UBPD during the recovery of the bodies.

For now, the bone structures were made available to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences for identification.

“What many families are interested in is having their loved ones, burying them, knowing where they are, where they can put a tombstone and some flowers. And from now on I am going to help as much as I can to contribute to the search for people who are still missing and who may be in this cemetery, ”said the gravedigger of the San José de Urrao cemetery garden, who asked to keep her name. in reserve.

This search is part of the Regional Plan for the Center of Antioquia – southwest chapter – which is being built by the UBPD together with organizations and people who are searching – which includes a universe under construction of 1,624 missing persons and at least 231 correspond to the municipality of Urrao.

MEDELLIN

Magangué: Bodies of three missing girls found after accident - Other Cities - Colombia

The Colombian Navy located and recovered on the morning of this Tuesday four lifeless bodies in the Magdalena River, at the height of the municipality of Magangué (Bolívar), which correspond to three minors and one adult.

In Magangué, authorities and the community continue the incessant search for two more girls who have been missing since Sunday night, after two boats collided. Both boats had violated all safety regulations and were traveling without lighting, in the middle of the night. Passengers were not wearing life jackets.

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“Around 4:30 in the morning, search and rescue work resumed, like this, on the corregimiento of Tolu, very close to the place of the collision, the location and recovery of two bodies were achieved, corresponding to two minors. Then, 6 kilometers downstream, on the corregimiento of San Sebastian de Buena Vista, a third body was recovered, also a minor. Finally, in the Barbosa sector, 17 kilometers downstream from the point of collision, we managed to recover the body of an adult…”, said Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel David Melo Ramìrez.

Tragedy in the same family

The girls who died after the collision of the two boats they are Carolina Castro Muñoz, 4 years old; Yomadis Castro Muñoz, 8; Solangie Guzmán Retamoza, 10; Dioselin Muñoz Guerra, 10; and Marcela Muñoz Guerra, 13. The five minors are members of the same family. In addition to the girls, the body of 23-year-old Vinson Barranco was found dead.

Boat was traveling without lighting and
passengers without life jackets

“The search and rescue activities are concentrated from kilometer 0 to kilometer 8, linking three vessels of the municipal administration in which the Civil Defense and the Red Cross. In addition, it has the support of 14 canoes belonging to fishermen in the region,” reported the The national army.

Nelviz Gutiérrez, mother of Vinson Barranco, recounted that they were returning to their town on the Magdalena River, but in the dark of the night they did not see the other boat. The woman said that the fury of the water dragged her several meters while I heard people’s cries for help.

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However, 12 of the 18 passengers managed to swim to shore. But the current of the river and the darkness of the night swallowed the five children of the Muñoz family and the young Barranco, who lived in Barranquilla and had reached Magangue to visit his mother.

This is the fishing boat ‘El Cipriano’, which would have collided with that of the 18 travelers and caused the tragedy.

There are two fishermen captured by the accident

A few hours after the accident, and already with daylight, the authorities located two fishermen, hidden in a house in the corregimiento of Toluwho apparently would be the crew of the boat driver identified as The Cyprianwhich -loaded with groceries- was involved in the collision on the night of February 6.

The two fishermen were captured and they are identified as responsible for the crash against the boat where 18 people were traveling between the corregimientos of San Sebastián del Coyonal and Buena Vista, municipality of Magangué.

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“With the use of slings and artisanal means used by the fishermen of the region, it was possible to find the place where the boat named La Niña Natalia, where people were travelling, was sunken,” assured the National Navy.

“With the support of fishermen from the sector, it was possible to refloat the boat ‘La Niña Natalia’, during the maneuver no bodies were found on board the boat, the hypothesis of the presence of bodies trapped in the tent of the boat was handled, which was dragged by the current of the Magdalena River”, underline sources from the National Navy.

The vessel was towed to the San Sebastián de Buenavista sector, where it was placed at the disposal of the National Police.

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Magangué: Bodies of three missing children found after accident - Other Cities - Colombia

The Colombian Navy located and recovered on the morning of this Tuesday four lifeless bodies in the Magdalena River, at the height of the municipality of Magangué (Bolívar), which correspond to three minors and one adult.

In Magangué, authorities and the community maintain the incessant search for the boy who has been missing since Sunday night, after two boats collided. Both boats had violated all safety regulations and were traveling without lighting, in the middle of the night. Passengers were not wearing life jackets.

(Also: Five children and one adult missing after boat crash in Bolívar)

“Around 4:30 in the morning, search and rescue work resumed, like this, on the corregimiento of Tolu, very close to the place of the collision, the location and recovery of two bodies were achieved, corresponding to two minors. Then, 6 kilometers downstream, on the corregimiento of San Sebastian de Buena Vista, a third body was recovered, also of a minor. Finally, in the Barbosa sector, 17 kilometers downstream from the point of collision, we managed to recover the body of an adult…”, said Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel David Melo Ramìrez.

Tragedy in the same family

The children who died after the collision of the two boats they are Carolina Castro Muñoz, 4 years old; Yomadis Castro Muñoz, 8; Solangie Guzmán Retamoza, 10; Dioselin Muñoz Guerra, 10; and Marcela Muñoz Guerra, 13. The five minors are members of the same family. In addition to the children, the body of 23-year-old Vinson Barranco was found dead.

Boat was traveling without lighting and
passengers without life jackets

“The search and rescue activities are concentrated from kilometer 0 to kilometer 8, linking three vessels of the municipal administration in which the Civil Defense and the Red Cross. In addition, it has the support of 14 canoes belonging to fishermen in the region,” reported the The national army.

Nelviz Gutiérrez, mother of Vinson Barranco, recounted that they were returning to their town on the Magdalena River, but in the dark of the night they did not see the other boat. The woman said that the fury of the water dragged her several meters while I heard people’s cries for help.

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However, 12 of the 18 passengers managed to swim to shore. But the current of the river and the darkness of the night swallowed the five children of the Muñoz family and the young Barranco, who lived in Barranquilla and had reached Magangue to visit his mother.

This is the fishing boat ‘El Cipriano’, which would have collided with that of the 18 travelers and caused the tragedy.

There are two fishermen captured by the accident

A few hours after the accident, and already with daylight, the authorities located two fishermen, hidden in a house in the corregimiento of Toluwho apparently would be the crew of the boat driver identified as The Cyprianwhich -loaded with groceries- was involved in the collision on the night of February 6.

The two fishermen were captured and they are identified as responsible for the crash against the boat where 18 people were traveling between the corregimientos of San Sebastián del Coyonal and Buena Vista, municipality of Magangué.

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“With the use of slings and artisanal means used by the fishermen of the region, it was possible to find the place where the boat named La Niña Natalia, where people were travelling, was sunken,” assured the National Navy.

“With the support of fishermen from the sector, it was possible to refloat the boat ‘La Niña Natalia’, during the maneuver no bodies were found on board the boat, the hypothesis of the presence of bodies trapped in the tent of the boat was handled, which was dragged by the current of the Magdalena River”, underline sources from the National Navy.

The vessel was towed to the San Sebastián de Buenavista sector, where it was placed at the disposal of the National Police.

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Disappearance of bodies from the Bucaramanga cemetery - Santander - Colombia

The Search Unit for Missing Persons – UBPD met from Bucaramanga to learn directly about the challenges in the search for missing persons that victims and organizations have identified in their struggle to know the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones. .

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In the middle of these sessions they listened to various victims, authorities and organizations within which they revealed a complaint from the central cemetery of Bucaramanga.

“It is necessary to solve a lack of information about more than a thousand bodies that were found and that today it is not known where they are. The Advisory Council had a dialogue with local authorities so that this is clarified and the victims have answers,” said Luz Marina Monzón, director of the Victims Unit.

The Unit has a plan called the Barranca Region Regional Plan that seeks “the truth about 4,235 people who disappeared between 1961 and 2016, with the years from 2000 to 2004 and from 1986 to 1988 being the years with the highest record of forcibly disappeared people and given by disappeared in the context of the armed conflict,” they indicated,

By municipalities, the largest reports of missing persons in Santander are in Barrancabermeja 1,127, Bucaramanga 465, Cimitarra 398, San Vicente de Chucurí 284 and Sabana de Torres, 166. By provinces, the cases of disappearance are concentrated in Yariguíes, 2,254; Metropolitan Area, 739, and Carare Opón, 600, according to Unit figures.

So far the authorities have not ruled on this fact that would be investigated.

BUCARAMANGA