Pubdate: Mon, 31 Dec 2012
Source: Windsor Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2012 The Windsor Star
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501

OFFICIALS SUSPECT DISPUTE AMONG DRUG TRAFFICKERS FOR MASSACRE THAT
KILLED 9 ON COLOMBIAN FARM

BOGOTA - Nine people have been shot to death in the countryside
outside Medellin in a massacre police suspect is a settling of
accounts between drug traffickers.

Gen. Yesid Vasquez is commander of the Metropolitan Police Department
in Medellin, Colombia's second largest city. He says that the five men
and four women were killed on a farm, apparently in the early morning
hours of Monday.

Vazquez says the slayings following a Sunday afternoon party at the
"extremely luxurious" country home, and the farm's owner is among the
dead.

The general says that the victims were apparently shot with guns that
had silencers, explaining why no one nearby reported hearing gunfire.

Santiago Londono, secretary of government for Antioquia department
says one woman survived the massacre and is being questioned by
investigators. 
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