Two More Candidates Killed Before Elections
Suspected rebels gunned down two candidates in Colombia’s upcoming state and mayoral elections, authorities said.
Police found the bodies of Jairo Gomez, a mayoral contender in the city of Genova, and Julio Cesar Castennanos, who was running for city council, lying in a ditch, said Uriel Torres, a police spokesman for the Quindio region. He blamed the attack on Colombia’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
At least 23 mayoral candidates have been killed and eight others kidnapped in the run-up to the Oct. 26 elections.
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