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CARACAS, Monday October 26, 2009 | Update
One of the bodies found at Venezuela-Colombia border is a Venezuelan citizen
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Colombian Ombudsman Vólmar Pérez said that eight out of the 10 members of a soccer team that were slain in Venezuela's border with Colombia, are Colombians, one of them was born in Peru and the other one in Venezuela. Pérez asked the Venezuelan authorities a "fast and efficient" investigation.
"There are eight Colombian men killed," Pérez told private radio station RCN from Venezuela, where he travelled this weekend.
The eight Colombians that were killed on Saturday were part of a group of a dozen people who were kidnapped on October 11, while playing a soccer game in the town of Chururú, Fernández Feo Municipality, in the Venezuelan state of Táchira, in the border with Colombia, AFP reported.
According to relatives, most of the victims were street vendors in Venezuela.
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