Three bodies found in mass grave in Colombia

More than fifty possible victims of extrajudicial executions are thought to have been buried clandestinely in the mass grave.

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has recovered three more bodies from one of the mass graves of the Dabeiba cemetery, in the department of Antioquia.

More than fifty possible victims of extrajudicial executions are thought to have been buried clandestinely in the mass grave.

The first body identified was that of Edison Lezcano, a farmer and father of three who was 23 years old when killed by the Colombian Army in 2002.

He is one of about 5,000 cases of the so called "false positives," a term used in Colombia to refer to disappeared persons who the Army murdered accusing them of being linked to insurgent organizations.

The remains of Lezcano were sent to the Institute of Legal Medicine.

The JEP is an institution created by the 2016 Peace Agreements to investigate crimes committed during the armed conflict.