Federico Torres Perlaza, former mayor of the municipality of López de Micay in the year 2002, was killed in the last hours, while he was in the urban center of that population located on the Pacific coast of the department of Cauca.
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According to preliminary information handled by the authoritiesthe former president was on the first streetone of the most popular of the population, when He was attacked by armed subjects who shot him.
“The information of the murder is confirmedalthough there are not many details, the information that is known came precisely from that street”said Javier Riascos, secretary of government of López de Micay.
Some people who were in the place Torres was taken to a local hospital after the attack, but he arrived without vital signs.
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facts are recorded a few hours before the development of the electoral day this Sunday and after a security council will be held for the legislative elections.
” We had already made a security council, but it must be said that In this municipality there is not enough public force presence. We are going to carry out a new security advice to know if we take different measures since we are hours away from elections,” said Waner Suárez mayor of the population.
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It is worth indicating that according to the information provided by the Electoral Observation Mission, in the department of Cauca, 31 of the 42 municipalities register high medium, low and high risks of electoral violence by the presence of illegal armed groups.
