After the bombing perpetrated on July 9 in the village of Santa Rita, in San Vicente del Caguán (Caquetá), in which 9 people died, among them alias Iván Mordisco –who would be the top leader of the FARC dissidents in the country–, the National Institute of Legal Medicine issued a statement indicating the death of two minors in the middle of the operation.
In the letter, the institution emphasizes that the bodies were handed over to them following the bombing, with the intention of carrying out the corresponding analyzes to determine the identities of the deceased, and in this way proceed to inform public opinion and also to hand over the remains. to the families of those involved.
Meanwhile, the Legal Medicine document is emphatic in highlighting the death of two minors in the middle of the operations; both bodies would correspond to the female sex and they would still be in the institute facilities waiting for their relatives to come to claim their remains.
So far, seven of the nine people who died in the bombing have been identified, so a future communication with the other two remaining names is expected; however, it was anticipated that these would be from two young women.
Among the identified victims and whose relatives have not gone through their bodies are John Alexánder Pedraza González, Jhonmar Córdoba Ortiz, Vidal Parra Tapasco and Jarvin Julián Martínez Rodríguez, while the minors were identified to the public with the initials MYMM. and KACH, this with the objective that their relatives manage to recognize their names and go to the institution.
Regarding the people who died in the bombing, the Government has insisted that they belonged to the security ring of alias Iván Mordisco, as well as a woman who would be the sentimental partner of the leader of the armed group, who was identified as alias Lorena; however, it has not been established so far what role these affected minors would have in the operation.
“Four people were part of the escort and the security ring of the group with which Mordisco moved. Various sources of information tell us that alias Lorena, sentimental partner [de Mordisco], was killed, found at the scene, where other evidence was collected. She was tried to remove from the site. Alias Jenni and Paisa, from the primary ring, died,” said the director of the Police, General Jorge Vargas.
Vargas told the country this Friday, July 15, that intelligence groups had been following and analyzing the movements of alias Iván Mordisco for several months, which would have led to the structuring of a plan that ended with the neutralization of the ringleader, an operation that was carried out at the beginning of this month and that until now the identification of the body of the aforementioned has been announced.
“There were several months of information gathering, a serious process, with human sources, criminals from the same structure who were making contact. The intelligence was focused on him, the entire collection process was to reach him. This evidence allows us to indicate to the country that this criminal is neutralized,” Vargas said.
