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Translation from news video:

Angela Acuña is a relative of one of the persons injured in the attack and today she returned to the place where the tragedy ocurred to explain how things happened.

-People were standing along the side of the street
-Along this street?
-Yes, on this side
-Did they say from where the attackers came?
-From that direction

-Narrator
The target of the hitmen was a man with a criminal record who was on house arrest but was at this place.

Reporter:
The hypothesis of the authorities is that the hitmen arrived on a white truck and they descended over there, then, they walked and went around the back (points to a building) and they came shooting along this street, where the people were partying, afterwards they ran back to the white truck and escaped on Via 40 road.

It's the same version told by one of the injured victims who didn't want to be identified for safety reasons.

Victim on bed:
When I heard the, the, the shots, I realized they were coming along the street that was deserted so I ran in the opposite direction of course, as most of the people did too.

Narrator:
He's a 25 y.o. man a Port logistics technician who was shot twice.

Victim on bed:
When I stood up and started running I gave three or four steps and I felt the two impacts that hit me in the lower part of my buttock, on the left thigh, but I didn't stop running, I managed to run for about 15 yards, my legs gave out, uhh, and I fell, that's when some friends and relatives helped me.

Narrator:
Angela told us where this young man was when he was hit by the bullets

Interview
-He was at this spot.
-Was he sitting on this spot?
-Approximately on this spot
-What happened at that moment?
-When the shooting started from that direction he ran away, he ran for about three yards, more or less over that spot, and it is the moment he got hit by the bullets, he kept running to about the middle of the boulevard and fell, then he rolled away to take cover and protect himself.

Narrator:
Authorities have in their possession this video where the truck in which the hitmen arrived can be seen as they escaped along the "Vía Circunvalar"


Reporter:
The barranquilla mayor is very upset, he says the man at whom this attack was directed had a long rap sheet, he should have been on house arrest, but no, he was on this street putting everyone at risk who had nothing to do with him.

So he made a request to the competent authorities so that they no longer give these criminals the benefit of house arrest.

Mayor:
But those who attack Barranquilla citizens with violence should be behind bars, and that's why we need to work together, and this can't continue happening, all those accused of violent crimes, those who have been caught with a firearm, who have been accused of homicide, or dismemberment, for violent acts, must be behind bars.

Reporter:
Well, today at six in the afternoon comunity leaders, all the community of the Flores neighborhood will congregate at the place of the tragedy to pay their respects to the victims of this massacre that left six persons dead and three injured.

In Barranquilla Argemiro Pión, Noticias Caracol.



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