The ICBF and the indigenous community assure that it is a multiple m*rder. The Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation. The d3ath under strange circumstances of five Yukpa brothers, between 3 and 15 years old, recalls the difficult conditions faced by indigenous peoples in Colombia and Venezuela. The tragedy occurred last Sunday on the El Limón sidewalk, in Codazzi, a municipality just over an hour from Valledupar, the capital of the Cesar department, and near the border between the two South American countries. As Edwar Álvarez Vacca, a Yukpa representative, told Caracol Radio on Tuesday, the father of the five children left his house around eight in the morning to attend a mass. When he returned, at one in the afternoon, he found three of his children d3ad. The remaining two, he said, were very sick. He transferred them to the Agustín Codazzi hospital, in the head of the municipality, where they died that afternoon. There are several hypothesis of the death of the children under 3, 7, 11, 13 and 15 years old. The Secretary of Health of the Colombian Caribbean Department, Juan Carlos Mindiola, reported on Sunday that the children consumed a poisonous fruit that caused their d3ath. "The information is that they consumed a corozo fruit, which is forbidden to eat it in their community because it can cause poisonous effects, and unfortunately they consumed it, which is why they presented a clinical picture related to food poisoning," he told the media. However, both the spokesmen for the Yukpa community, which has about 15,000 people between the two countries, and the director of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF), have assured that it is a multiple murder. #colombia #yukpa #indigenouspeoples