Israeli citizen assassinated in Medellin
An Israeli citizen was assassinated in broad day light on Thursday in an affluent neighborhood in the west of Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, local authorities said.
An Israeli citizen was assassinated in broad day light on Thursday in an affluent neighborhood in the west of Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, local authorities said.
Medellin’s second airport resumed operating international flights of small airplanes on Tuesday, more than 30 years after a plane crash inside the city spurred the airport to ban international flights.
Homicides in Colombia’s second biggest city Medellin shot up 80% in May after tensions between local crime lords ended years of relative peace between the city’s gangs.
Peru’s alleged number one drug lord was captured in Medellin and deported from Colombia to his home country on Sunday.
Flyers inviting young female students into prostitution have been circulating around Medellin’s top universities.
Medellin youth are fed up with ongoing gang violence and have urged Mayor Federico Gutierrez to execute the violence prevention and reduction programs he had promised while on election campaign.
Medellin authorities have temporarily suspended outdoor activities in the city following extreme levels of pollution in recent weeks.
Colombia’s second largest city, Medellin, was forced to close its inner-city airport on Tuesday amid concerns over excessive air pollution that has been haunting the city for months.
A 22-year-old tourist who was reported missing in Medellin on Monday is alive and well in a yoga resort in southwestern Colombia, local media reported.