Body of Ecuador gangster Junior Roldán stolen from cemetery - BBC News

The body of Junior Roldán, who was shot dead in May in Colombia, has vanished from a cemetery vault.

3 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, TwitterImage caption, Junior Roldán was killed in Colombia and buried in a cemetery in Envigado, south of MedellínBy Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsThe body of an Ecuadorean gang leader has disappeared from its resting place in a cemetery in Colombia, police say.

Junior Roldán's remains were placed in a wall vault in the town of Envigado after no one had claimed his body.

The number two in Los Choneros, a prison gang which has been terrorising Ecuador, had been found shot dead in Colombia's Antioquia province in May.

He had fled to Colombia after surviving two previous attempts on his life in his native Ecuador.

His body was found with bullet wounds to the head in a wooded area on 6 May.

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