Bogota Fire Department reported this afternoon that the body of the security guard was found, apparently 7 months later. Javier Velilla swept away by the mud and water current In the landslides that occurred on the road to La Calera last November. The body was found next to the car he was driving at the time of the disaster.
“I know that God will one day give it back to me however he wills, but I know that he will give it back to me, for my children, for giving him a holy burial, and for all these anxieties. The words of Luz Ángela Ríos Camacho, Velilla’s wife told EL TIEMPO before her husband’s body was reported to have been found.
The winter wave of November 2022 was perhaps one of the strongest in recent times in the nation’s capital. The rainy season affected 46 families (280 people in total), Receiving humanitarian aid in three shelters organized by the Bogotá Municipality.
A landslide fell amid heavy rains on a vehicle passing over the upper part of a sector known as the Camino al Meta. The fifth kilometer of the La Calera road.
Alejandro Rodríguez, a young 33-year-old security guard who got into a car to do surveillance work with 40-year-old Javier Velilla, was transported in that vehicle. Rodríguez got out of the car, but… According to eyewitnesses, no matter how hard the man tried to run away from the car, he could not escape from the mountain. the earth that dragged him and threw him into the valley where his body was found.
Five months have passed since then, and the remains of Velilla have not been found.
BOGOTA EDACTION.
Source: Exame
