Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has revealed that at least 15 people have been killed over the last two days in Colombia in a spate of some violent incidents which had occured in the last two days.
In the northern city of Barranquilla, over six people had been shot dead by sp,e gunmen on Monday morning while they had been drinking in a bar.
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Police had reported that the powerful Gulf Clan drug trafficking gang had carried out the attack on members of the rival Los Costenos group.
In the north-central Santander department, a teacher, his wife and two children were killed by a group of assailants on Sunday morning, local authorities there said. Another report had also shown that some five Venezuelan migrants, accused of being involved in the murders, were then lynched by vigilantes in an apparent act of revenge.
The local mayor had told a national radio station that the murderers were “people from Venezuela” who wanted “to steal money” and used knives to kill their victims.
Following the attack, an injured employee of the murdered family alerted neighbors, who “took justice into their own hands and killed” the five attackers, said the mayor.
On Saturday night, a union leader had also been shot dead by two armed motorcyclists in the northeastern port city of Barrancabermeja. According to the Indepaz NGO, it was the 126th murder of a union leader since the state had signed a 2016 peace deal with Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas.
Petro who is Colombia’s first left-wing president, vowed following his June election victory to bring about “total peace” in the conflict-ravaged country but it can also be noted that Colombia has suffered six decades of conflict involving leftist guerrillas, drug traffickers, right-wing paramilitaries and state forces.