COLOMBIA – Officials said a Colombian filmmaker was shot dead while producing a documentary on the victims of violence in the northeast of the country.
Governor Ricardo Arévalo said Mauricio Lezama conducted interviews in the town of Arauquita when he was shot.
Arévalo blamed splinter members of the Farc rebel group.
Arauca was known as a center of drug trafficking and smuggling.
Lezama was working on a documentary entitled Mayo, about a nurse murdered in the region during Colombia’s armed conflict.
Local media reported the gunmen arrived on a motorbike at about 15:30 local time (20:30 GMT) on Thursday, shot the filmmaker multiple times and fled. (BBC)
