After the operation, four foreigners were arrested.
Tulcan
The Venezuelan citizen Yorman Molina, 25, was shot on Thursday night 2 a few meters from the land terminal, on Bolívar and Carabobo streets, in the south of the city of Tulcán.
The victim had seven gunshot wounds: three in the thorax region, two in the lumbar region and the same number in the left forearm.
According to the police report, the incident began in the ring called Las Bolas, from where the attackers fled; one of them, while running, threw a grenade that did not activate.
Preliminary reports show that five people were arguing and then one of them shot Molina.
The wife of the deceased would have revealed to the investigators that they were acquaintances of him.
After the persecution and the timely presence of the preventive police axis, the four accused in this event were apprehended.
Pablo Yacelga, head of the Tulcán Police District, said that there was an immediate reaction from the police officers, and assured that he arrived at the site two minutes after the incident was recorded.
In the police action, a motorcycle, a Browning brand firearm, 4 struck 9 mm caliber pods, a deformed warhead and a hand grenade were detained.
The Police identified the detainees as Efrén P. (39), Enrique R. (26), Royer J. (24) and Adolfo D. (24), all of Venezuelan nationality.
The event has shocked the border population. The residents of that area in the south of the city, where there have been several clashes with knives, denounced that two bands of foreigners are fighting over the domain of drug marketing and migrant smuggling.
Group arrested last week was released
Last week, after three months of investigations, the Police obtained the apprehension of a mixed group that was accused of migrant smuggling.
Now, there is unease in the police authorities because a judge ordered the freedom and alternative measures for the 16 members of that alleged transnational gang, made up of Ecuadorians and Venezuelans, who allegedly were engaged in migrant smuggling.
Luis Garcés, director of Investigations Against Gender Violence, reported that this group operated in Tulcán in the vicinity of the land terminal, where they captured foreign citizens, especially Haitians, who were taken to Colombia by trails or irregular passages after payment of $ 200 per person. (I)
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