A farmer from the municipality of Sibanicú, in Camagüey, was murdered with a machete last Saturday in an alleged robbery attempt. A neighbor pointed to the middle Cuban Time that the body of the victimwhose name is unknown but was known to his friends as Baracoa, He was hidden in a sack in the bathroom of his home and found two days later.
According to the story, the body was discovered the following Monday by some workers who were alarmed when they saw a large number of flies and dyed auras flying over the victim’s home, located in a field at the end of one of the main roads of the town. La Norma, 18 kilometers from Sibanicú.
Agents from the Criminalistics Department of the Ministry of the Interior and a hearse arrived at the scene, which took the body to perform the autopsy. The source assured that the burial took place that same day in the Sibanicú cemetery, due to the decomposition of the body.
The farmer lived alone and dedicated himself to raising animals and tending to plots of land, the outlet points out. The authorities have not yet confirmed this homicide, which takes place in the midst of a wave of violence and economic crisis.
The farmer lived alone and dedicated himself to raising animals and taking care of plots of land, reports ‘La Hora de Cuba’
The province of Camagüey has been the scene of six murders so far in 2023, recalls the independent media, with two femicides, three homicides that occurred in attempted robberies and this last violent death, whose motive is still being investigated by the authorities.
The Government does not publish the record of homicides on the Island, but pressured by the complaints circulating on social networks, it has been forced to report on some facts, such as the discovery of the body of Guperto Rafael Cánovas Adama 72-year-old taxi driver from Camagüey, who was found on February 10, a week after his disappearance, with signs of violence after an attack to steal his car.
One of the cases that caused the most commotion in the province was the murder at the beginning of February of Leidy Bacallao Santana, 17 years oldwho went to a police unit seeking protection against her ex-partner, but he chased her and ended up killing her with a machete.
At the beginning of February, the death of Yudel López Álvarez, 41, was also confirmed, who was stabbed and later dismembered by his perpetrators in an attack to steal his electric tricycle. The murderers put his body in a sack and threw it into the river with other heavy objects so that it would sink, according to a family member. Cuban newspaper.
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