What the records say
- When
- 18 Oct 1998
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 70
- Coordinates
- 6.68° N, 75.57° W
- Description
- Mass murder of Colombian civilians by far-left guerillas
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Machuca Massacre
Mass murder of Colombian civilians by far-left guerillas
The Machuca massacre was a massacre that took place in the Colombian village of Machuca, near Segovia, Antioquia on October 18, 1998. Guerillas belonging to the National Liberation Army (ELN) dynamited an oil pipeline, which caused a spreading fire to the village. Seventy people lost their lives, many of them children.
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