The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) said on Saturday night (Europe time) that a new massacre has been carried out in Colombia, in Cauca.

Two women and a man were killed in a rural area of the municipality of Mercaderes, department of Cauca, in southwestern Colombia, where six months ago they killed community leader Alvaro Daza and three of his relatives.

This is the 70th massacre since the beginning of the year: 278 people have been killed in those massacres.

A joint commission went to the site to carry out urgent inspections of the scene and the bodies. The mayor of Mercaderes, Fernando Díaz Salamanca, confirmed that the relevant judicial bodies went to the place of the massacre to start the corresponding investigations.

On April 29th, in the village of El Vado, in the rural area of the municipality of Mercaderes, a massacre was registered after armed individuals assassinated the president of the Community Action Board and three members of his family.

On that occasion, the victims were identified as: Álvaro Narváez Daza, community leader; his wife María Delia Daza Rodríguez; his son Cristian Narváez Daza and the leader's granddaughter, Jenny Katherine López Narváez, 15 years old.