They find the body of a journalist in his home in Altamira

The body of Mercedes Herrera, a 40-year-old journalist, was found this Thursday, October 3, at her home in Altamira, Caracas, four days after her disappearance was reported when she was preparing to exercise in the El Ávila National Park. .

The discovery occurred after the neighbors were alerted by a strong smell coming from the Madrigal estate, located on the tenth intersection with San Juan Bosco Avenue in that urbanization in the east of the city.

The woman was tied up and in an advanced state of decomposition in one of the rooms of the house where she lived with a family member.

According to police information, No one violated the locks or doors of the property. Officials from the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps (Cicpc) went to the scene to begin investigations and determine the causes of the murder.

However, it is expected that the cause of death will be determined by officials from the National Service of Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Senamecf).

Mercedes was a social communicator and worked independently. It was learned that the woman’s closest relatives live outside of Venezuela and traveled to the country after learning what happened.

Unsolved disappearances

On January 6, relatives of a Chinese citizen and engineer named Zhanbin Wang, 43 years old, reported him missing. Witnesses saw him for the last time in El Ávila National Park.

After a week of searching, the authorities and rescue teams found the man’s body with a severe bruise on the head as a result of a fall from more than 30 meters high.

According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), in 2023, 1,443 missing people were reported, for an average of 5.5 missing persons per one hundred thousand inhabitants.