Just the wrong place at the wrong time: At the beginning of November, two young people from our partner organisation Unidad de Organizaciones Afrocaucanas were killed and another girl was injured. It is likely that they were caught in the crossfire of two warring gangs.
yy/st The widespread violence in Colombia has hit a partner organisation of terre des hommes Switzerland, Unidad de Organizaciones Afrocaucanas (UOAFROC), with full force. During the night of 3-4 November this year, young people from the UOAFROC youth group were shot in Guachené, in the department of Cauca, according to UOAFROC members. A 17-year-old girl, the sister of the leader of the group, died with bullet wounds in her back and leg on the way to hospital. Her sister suffered gunshot wounds to her thigh and survived. Another boy, 15 years old, was fatally hit by a ricochet.
