A Colombian man died shortly after being transferred to a hospital in Barrio México following a firefight with an AK47 assault rifle in the Tibás neighborhood of Leon XIII. The shooting took place a few meters from a home that authorities raided on Monday in the search for a cache of firearms that were stolen from the transit police.
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