The Colombian police Friday said suspected members of the Army of National Liberation (ELN) killed five people.
The murder occurred Thursday in a rural area of Arauca province, where allegedly ELN members intercepted a vehicle and shot at people aboard, said Luis Ortiz, police commander from the province.
"We accuse ELN members of this murder, since one of the dead was a former member of this group...and we are investigating to find out the true motives of this massacre," Ortiz said.
According to the authorities, the victims were a former ELN member, his two sons, his son-in-law and a girl. Two women were also injured.
The 4,500-strong ELN is Colombia's second biggest anti-government group behind the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
The country has been locked in a four-decade civil war among government forces, leftist guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries, and more than 3,000 people were killed every year in this longest conflict in Latin America.
Source:Xinhua
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