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After being missing for almost 15 days, María S. was found dead in a chaco in the community of Apharumiri de Shinahota, in the Cochabamba tropics. According to the preliminary investigation by the authorities and statements by the community members, her husband confessed to the crime and identified the place to dig up her body.
The police commander, Rubén Lobatón, reported that the Special Force to Fight Violence (Felcv) carried out the legal removal of the body of a woman in the last few hours. The body was transferred to the morgue for the respective law autopsy.
According to the Police, with this case, Cochabamba already has six femicides from January to date.
Relatives said that the victim left her Apharumiri community in Shinahota on March 21, together with her partner, bound for Potosí, but never reached her destination, according to a report in the newspaper Los Tiempos.
After learning of the discovery of the body, the community members of the Central 12 de Agosto marched to demand justice for the femicide of María.
Regarding the case, the director of the educational unit of the Churo Grande community told the ATB network that two children were orphaned.
On Tuesday, a 46-year-old woman and a 12-year-old girl were killed after being victims of rape. The first case occurred in Potosí and the second was registered in La Paz.
The first case occurred in the municipality of Tinquipaya in the department of Potosí, where Hilda CG, 46, was murdered after being the victim of multiple rape by her partner Casiano H. and two other people, Daniel N., 34, and Estanislao D., 50 years old. The accused were apprehended.
In the second case, a 12-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a 16-year-old adolescent in the town of Vichaya, in the La Paz municipality of Viacha.
