Stolen health funds spur inquiry
From Times Wire Reports
Colombia has launched a murder investigation and arrested three people in a jungle province where health funds were stolen, leaving indigenous children to starve to death, the attorney general said.
Two former officials and one current official have been detained and more arrests are expected amid an uproar over media images of emaciated children in the northwestern province of Choco. Entire villages in Choco are often displaced as rebels, paramilitaries and other groups battle for control of coca-producing land.
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