Body found with a message from the ELN in Puerto Wilches, Santander

In the last few hours it became known that the authorities found a lifeless body on the banks of the Magdalena River, in Puerto Wilches, Santander.

According to the first reports, an ELN sign was found on the back of the murdered person.

This finding, which is frightening the community, occurred in the sector known as La Punta in the Arenera neighborhood, rural area of Puerto Wilches. The competent authorities arrived at the scene to carry out the process of removing the body, but also, in order to initiate an investigation to clarify this fact.

According to local media, the victim was identified as Luis Gabriel López Prada, a young man who lived in the municipality of Puerto Wilches but also moved for long periods to Barranquilla, in the Atlantic.

It should be recalled that at the beginning of March there was a hit attack in the same sector of Puerto Wilches, where a young man died of drowning in the river when he tried to escape the gunfire.

Young man jumped into the Magdalena river to avoid being killed and died of drowning

In the municipality of Puerto Wilches, after two days of searches by rescue agencies, was found the body of a 20-year-old boy identified as Brayan Castro, who had jumped into the Magdalena River to prevent armed men who were shooting from attacking his life.

The events occurred at the beginning of March, when the young man apparently died as a result of drowning by the river flow and not by the gunfire fired by the hit men who attacked fire in the La Arenera sector, the same place where the recent murder of Luis Gabriel López was recorded.

The mayor of Puerto Wilches, Jairo Toquica, spoke against the discovery of the rescue agencies, congratulating them for their timely action and commented on the concrete fact of the death: “The three young people were in the place known as El Arenero on the banks of the Magdalena River, when, according to witnesses, individuals who triggered the firearm. The three of them jumped into the river, at a height of at least three meters, to escape the attack, but only two managed to get out alive.”

According to the investigations, the hit attack was for the Venezuelan citizen, who is allegedly a drug dealer and was going to be the victim of armed men as a result of retaliation.

In dialogue with Blu Radio, Mayor Toquica commented that “he (the victim) was accompanied by a Venezuelan citizen and there are indications that the foreigner is a vendor of hallucinogens. The young man who died of drowning was at the wrong time and in the wrong place.”

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