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Colombia: Gunmen execute two children from Venezuela on charges of shoplifting

THE UNcalled today for an investigation into the murder of two teenagers by Venezuela, who were charged with theft and executed shortly afterwards, in a community in the northeastern Colombia.

In videos and photos posted on social networking sites, the two boys appear inside a store, trying to steal and get caught. The youngest of them, who does not even look like a teenager, was holding a red school backpack.

Looking devastated, with their hands tied with adhesive tape, they are surrounded by many people who are heard preaching to them: “Unfortunately, they are two very young children, we do not want to see you lying on the side of the road tomorrow, we will deliver you to the authorities “, Says a man.

According to the photos, the two children were found dead a little later, on a rural road, where they were obviously executed with a bullet in the chest. The child with the red backpack was placed a cardboard where someone had written the word “thief”.

The children were killed in the community Τίμπου, in his province North Santander bordering on Venezuela and where many armed and criminal organizations operate.

Local authorities condemned the “unacceptable violence” and the killings of “a minor and a young adult”.

Her representative posted on Twitter Committee on Human Rights of UN in Colombia He also condemned the “murder of a 12-year-old boy” and called on the authorities to investigate. However, he did not mention the second victim.

His police commander North Santander, Colonel Carlos Martines, claimed that before the police arrived on the scene, “armed men on motorcycles arrived on the scene, took the two children and killed them outside the community”. The victims had previously been beaten by the city’s merchants.

Traders, for their part, categorically deny this claim. According to the local Merchants Federation, they called the police several times, tried to protect the lives of the two boys and prevent the unknown men from taking them with them.

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