Authors of killing a Dominican seeking 1.2 tonnes of drugs

BANI, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - The executors of the massacre of seven men of different nationalities in a village in the Dominican Republic looking for a cargo of 1,200 kilos of cocaine, the authorities said an employee of the house where the victims lived.

Mercedes Carvajal, who survived the massacre along with her husband, Emilio Basilio vigilant Victoria, told authorities that a group of six heavily armed men entering the interior of the house demanded the delivery of drugs, as well as $ 200,000 Cash, told sources linked to the investigation of the case.

Four Venezuelans, two Colombians and Dominicans were kidnapped by unknown group and then tied up, executed with bullets and their bodies found Tuesday morning at the edge of a road in the community of Ojo de Agua, in Bani, a city located 65 kilometres south of Santo Domingo.

An eighth victim, the Nicaraguan Holy Gomez, 28 years, achieving survive despite receive two impacts of bullets and is out of danger in the central hospital of the Armed Forces in Santo Domingo, where he was moved for security reasons.Of the victims, the authorities have only identified the Colombian Jesus David Hans River, 28, owner of the residence where the group was abducted.

According to the version of the authorities, 1,200 kilos of cocaine had been landed on the beach known as Savannah Uvero by two Colombians and one Nicaraguan.

Neighbors have said that the place to reach the area with boats and planes launched drug packages that are collected by people who are waiting, almost always in all-terrain vehicles.

The Savannah Uvero Beach “is a” sanctuary “of the bombing of drugs, reported the Reuters Dominican Julio Cesar Fortuna, a resident of the place.

Fortuna, who has a property near the beach, confirmed that the spa is a base where they are unloaded large drug shipments not only from planes, but mostly from ships and boats arriving in the early morning hours.

For the senator of the Peravia province, Wilton Guerrero, this situation can not be happening without the complicity of the authorities of Police and the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), responsible for maintaining security in the area.

“Part of operators Drug Control Peravia province is what they are going to collect their toll on all outlets for drugs,” the senator complained, after ensuring that the province has become a kind of “free zone for illicit activities. ”

The impression of researchers in charge of the case is that the group of Venezuelans, Colombians and Nicaraguans came to stay in the area for quite a while.

The residence, in which investigations have determined that the group was acquired by an Italian citizen, was being reconditioned, providing it with sophisticated communications equipment. In the rear there are two parables that, according to sources of researchers, would be used to intercept international telephone calls.

The Dominican authorities said they were advancing details for the delivery of corpses to the embassies of Venezuela and Colombia.