They find the torso of a person in Azogues

1. At that moment they requested the presence of members of the Judicial Police, PJ, for the removal of the body. At the end of the procedure, they helped remove the body part, said Officer Araujo.

1.1. Cristian Echeverría, head of the PJ of Cañar said that the torso in decomposition was transferred to the Research Center of Forensic Sciences of Cuenca for the respective expertise to help determine who it is. The official said that a few weeks ago a leg was found in the same river, however, he assured that the corresponding analysis instances will determine if the limb and the torso belong to the same person.

2. After the discovery of a human torso in the Burgay River, the Cañar Prosecutor's Office considers that it is evident that it was a macabre murder. And it is that the body of a man of approximately 40 years is missing his arms, legs and head. The body was spotted on the afternoon of the last Monday, January 7, when it was dragged by the Burgay river flow at the height of the city of Azogues. That day, an intense rain caused the increase of the affluent flow; the current carried the corpse downstream. Staff of the Fire Department and the Red Cross developed an arduous search for the banks of the Burgay, until they reached their location in the El Carmín citadel, of the Javier Loyola de Azogues parish. It was the part of a human body in an advanced state of decomposition. Ximena Rojas, Azogues prosecutor who began the investigation of the case, said the corpse would correspond to a man between 40 to 50 years.

3. The remains were found yesterday afternoon in Azogues, after residents of Aurelio Jaramillo street realized that the body was dragged by the river Burgay.A call to the ECU 911, around 15:23, alerted of a body that was dragged by the affluent. Under the command of Jairo Araujo, head of the Fire Department of Azogues, search teams were formed.

4. According to Araujo, the sweep started behind the Divino Niño church in the Charasol parish, until the Carmino bridge, which connects Azogues with the community of Santa Martha, where after two hours, two volunteers held the body. In doing so, they realized that it was a person's torso.