Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office announced a disciplinary investigation against the mayor of a town in the center of the country where at least four people died and 280 were injured after a stand collapsed during a bullfight.
The accident occurred on Sunday in the municipality of El Espinal, in the department of Tolima, during the celebration of the festivities of San Pedro and San Pablo.
Images showed the moment when a section of the makeshift bullring made of wooden boards collapsed into the arena.
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“The Attorney General’s Office will open a disciplinary investigation against the mayor of El Espinal, Tolima, for tragedy in corraleja,” said the agency -in charge of investigating the actions of public officials-, through its Twitter account.
“The president did not respond to the requests for disaster response action plans. We stand in solidarity with relatives of the injured and deceased,” he added.
The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The report is of 280 people who were treated in the different health centers (…) and four dead,” Luis Fernando Vélez, director of the Civil Defense of Tolima, told local Blu Radio.
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