A masked gang stormed a bakery and kidnapped a 19-year-old woman while she was putting in a shift for her dad’s business.
Alejandra Castaño was abducted from a shop owned by her father at around 5am on on Tuesday (27 October) morning.
Chilling footage shows a Toyota Hilux truck pulling up outside the shop before three balaclava-clad gunmen get out and storm the building.
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One heads straight towards Alejandra as another holds a pistol to the back of the head of a young man said to be her boyfriend.
After grabbing the young woman, the first man holds his arm around her neck as he drags her back out of the shop.
He appears to cast his face down as they approach the security camera in the upper left corner.
She is then bundled into the rear passenger seat before the thugs speed off in an unknown direction.
Locals have been left terrified after security footage captured the chilling incident in Guacari, Valle del Cauca, in southwestern Colombia.
Alejandra’s father – who owns a number of similar bakeries – is said to have been in Medellin at the time of the abduction.
Police are currently investigating the circumstances, including the motive which remains unclear at this time.
Despite being a prominent business owner in the local area, reports say Alejandra’s father had not been the target of extortion attempts in the past.
The family has not yet been contacted with any ransom demands for her release, reports add.
Officials have offered a £350,000 (30 million pesos) reward to anyone with information that can help locate the 19-year-old, identify her kidnappers, or establish the route they drove off in.
Police have teamed up with Colombia’s armed forces to implement a lockdown in the town of Guacari, with plans to extend to nearby areas.
Investigators are said to be considering whether FARC dissidents could be involved in the crime, though no one has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack.
FARC – the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – was a far-left, Marxist group operating a guerilla army in the country between 1964 to 2017.
Kidnapping was a common tactic used by the insurgents to raise funds or pressure the Colombian government into releasing their comrades, who they considered political prisoners.
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