The police have announced that following the murder of two police officers in San Jose de Ocoa early on Monday morning, 10 July 2017, the total number of police killed so far this year by criminals has risen to 14.
Nelson Rosario, police spokesman said that they are on the heels of the four men involved in the recent shooting and there is an operation being carried out in San José de Ocoa and Bani to capture those responsible for the deaths of Lieutenant Johnny Arias Cabrera and Corporal D’Oleo Paredes.
It appears that the police officers were killed when they tried to stop the men in a white SUV in which they were holding someone kidnapped. The SUV has since been recovered on the road from Bani to Ocoa, containing the body of the presumed kidnapped victim.
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El Caribe
12 July 2017
