For 30 hours four inhabitants of the municipality of Tame, in Arauca, were held by one of the illegal armed groups that is present in that area of the country. On Sunday night, the Ombudsman’s Office confirmed his release.
“We have received confirmation that the four people who had been taken against their will by illegal armed groups in Botalón and Puente Tabla, rural areas of Tame, today they returned to their families”, reads the statement of the Ombudsman.
The deprivation of liberty of these people occurred on Saturday January 22 around 4:00 in the afternoon in the populated center of Botalón, in Tame. Witnesses had narrated that, without saying a word, the armed men loaded the detainees into trucks and took them to an unknown destination.
Citizens warned of the kidnapping of six people, but later the authorities pointed out that this violation occurred in four Araucanians.
The kidnapping of these people was recorded in the middle of a convulsive week for the Araucanians. The dispute between the dissidents of the FARC and the ELN in that border department over illegal rents does not let up.
pharmaceutical explosion
While the hostages were released in Tame, in Arauca capital there was an explosion against the headquarters of the Oxígeno del Llano pharmaceutical company.
According to the first information, subjects located the explosive device at the entrance of the facilities of this company that It borders the headquarters of the National University in Arauca. The preliminary report indicates that there were no injuries and that the damage was only material.
This last fact in border department with Venezuela relive the explosion with carrobomba that appeared in Saravena and that left one person dead and 20 more injured. The attack was attributed the 28th front of the Farc dissidents in command of aliases Anthony Medina, for which a reward of $1,000 million is offered.