In the first two months of 2013 alone, 114 people disappeared from Colombia’s third largest city of Cali, representing a 8% increase in disappearances over the same period in 2012, reported the Cali Ombudsman’s office on Sunday.
Cali has the third largest number of disappearances throughout the first two months of 2013, behind the country’s second largest city of Medellin, with 151 cases, and the country’s capital of Bogota with an astonishing 590 cases.
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There has been a worrying upward trend in reports of disappearances recently. More than 7,500 Colombians disappeared in 2012, which is a 76% increase over 2011 and the highest number of disappearances reported in ten years.
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