Packaged" corpses sow terror in Colombian capital
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 / 4:16 PM / AFP
For several months, bodies wrapped in plastic, some dismembered, have appeared on the streets of Colombia's capital Bogota — grim proof of an escalating vendetta between rival Venezuelan gangs.
Not even the bombings by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, or the murderous activities of leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries, have generated as much terror as the "packaged" corpses.
Since January, 23 bodies wrapped in plastic have been found abandoned in the city. These are "violent murders by strangulation, firearms or also with knives and a lot of cruelty," security minister Anibal Fernandez de Soto told AFP.
The bloody trail has reached eight of the 19 districts in a city that, while beset with organized crime, has been spared the worst of Colombia's decades of violent conflict.
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