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Colombia probes disappearances from Bogota prison
Source: BBC
Colombia probes disappearances from Bogota prison
18 February 2016 Latin America & Caribbean
Prosecutors in Colombia are investigating more than 100 reported cases of disappearances from a jail in Bogota between 1999 and 2001.
Prosecutors think inmates and visitors to La Modelo prison may have been killed, their bodies dismembered and thrown into the jail's sewers.
The prison houses left-wing rebels, right-wing paramilitaries and drug dealers.
Parts were controlled by inmates at the time of the disappearances.
In 2000, the dismembered body of an inmate who had disappeared eight days earlier was found stuffed inside a plastic bag in a drain in the jail.
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18 February 2016 Latin America & Caribbean
Prosecutors in Colombia are investigating more than 100 reported cases of disappearances from a jail in Bogota between 1999 and 2001.
Prosecutors think inmates and visitors to La Modelo prison may have been killed, their bodies dismembered and thrown into the jail's sewers.
The prison houses left-wing rebels, right-wing paramilitaries and drug dealers.
Parts were controlled by inmates at the time of the disappearances.
In 2000, the dismembered body of an inmate who had disappeared eight days earlier was found stuffed inside a plastic bag in a drain in the jail.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35603022
