-5195(39) During these interrogations, they severed the veins, ears or genital organs of some of those abducted, or they gouged out their eyes.66 95(40) 20 people died as a result of these initial actions. The survivors were transferred to a wooded area so that no one would see them. At about 7 a.m. on the morning of January 15, 1990, Fidel Castaño Gil continued the interrogation in person; the survivors were “kicked and beaten” to death.67 95(41) Subsequently, the members of the paramilitary group transferred the corpses to “Las Tangas.” Around 22 corpses were transported to another sandbank of the Sinú River on this ranch, where they were buried.68 However, at the date of this judgment, the whereabouts of 37 of the alleged victims is still not known (supra para. 95(35)). 95(42) During the morning of January 15, 1990, several next of kin of the individuals who had been abducted went to the San Pedro de Urabá military base to obtain information on the whereabouts of the disappeared. At the base, they were received by Lieutenant Fabio Enrique Rincón Pulido, who told them that the trucks transporting the persons taken from Pueblo Bello had not passed through the military roadblock and mentioned that the inhabitants of Pueblo Bello “had exchanged people for cattle.” The alleged victims’ next of kin received little help from the authorities in the search for the disappeared.69 95(43) Approximately one week after the facts occurred, some of the next of kin of the disappeared, accompanied by personnel from the Special Prosecutions Division searched the military base to see if those abducted were there, but they found no one.70 66 Cf. judgment of the Sentencing Chamber of the Tribunal Nacional of December 30, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C3, folio 452), and ordinary judgment of the Medellín Regional Court of May 26, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C2, folio 365). 67 Cf. judgment of the Sentencing Chamber of the Tribunal Nacional of December 30, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C3, folios 452 and 453). 68 Cf. ordinary judgment of the Medellín Regional Court of May 26, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C2, folio 345) and judgment of the Sentencing Chamber of the Tribunal Nacional of December 30, 1997 (file of attachments to the application brief, tome II, attachment C3, folios 420 and 452); judgment of the Criminal Appeals Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of March 8, 2001 (file of attachments to the application, tome II, attachment C4, folio 482), and report submitted by the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) on September 12, 1990 (file of attachments to the requests and arguments brief, attachment 5(2), folio 1537). 69 Cf. ruling of the Office of the Delegate Disciplinary Attorney for Human Rights of the Attorney General’s Office of July 31, 2000 (file of attachments to the application, tome II, attachment C10, folio 662); testimonies of Rubén Díaz Romero, Mariano Manuel Martínez, Ángel Emiro Jiménez Romero, José Daniel Álvarez and Blanca Libia Moreno Cossio before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on September 19, 2005, and statements made before notary public (affidavits) by Eliécer Manuel Meza Acosta, Genaro Benito Calderón Ruiz, Manuel Dolores López Cuadro, Euclides Manuel Calle Álvarez, Benildo José Ricardo Herrera, Leovigilda Villalba Sánchez, María Cecilia Ruiz de Álvarez and Edilma de Jesús Monroy Higuita (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public, folios 2701, 2704, 2706, 2704, 2712, 2719, 2726, 2730, 2735 and 2739). 70 Cf. testimony of Mariano Manuel Martínez before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on September 19, 2005, and statements made before notary public (affidavits) by Eliécer Manuel Meza Acosta and Leovigilda Villalba Sánchez (file of statements made before or authenticated by notary public, folios 2701, 2706 and 2707).