{"id":159734,"date":"2025-09-25T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159734\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:05:09","slug":"three-young-women-tortured-and-murdered-by-drug-gang-all-captured-live-on-instagram-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159734\/","title":{"rendered":"Three young women tortured and murdered by drug gang – all captured live on Instagram | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three young women were tortured, raped and murdered by an Argentinian drug gang – who captured it all live on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Security minister Javier Alonso said the horrific crime was watched by about 45 people in a closed Instagram Live group.<\/p>\n

Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi, and Lara Guti\u00e9rrez went missing on Friday. But police have now confirmed their bodies have been found buried in the garden of a house in the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

Detectives believe they were tricked into going to the property by their murderers.<\/p>\n

Mr Alonso said: “They were last seen getting into a vehicle voluntarily because they had been invited to an event, not knowing they were falling into a trap set for them by an international drugs trafficking gang which had hatched a plan to kill them.<\/p>\n

“The torture session was streamed live on social media – not recorded, broadcast live – to a private Instagram group, and apparently about 45 people watched it.<\/p>\n

“The drug trafficking organisation has its operational command in Buenos Aires and they had chosen this house to carry out the murders.”<\/p>\n

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‘Brutal dehumanisation’<\/p>\n

The Buenos Aires Ministry of Women and Diversity said the crime was a femicide – “the most extreme expressions of gender-based violence”.<\/p>\n

A statement said: “In the context of drug-related crime, they are a brutal and ferocious expression of dehumanisation, cruelty, and neglect.<\/p>\n

“We accompany their families and loved ones in their grief.”<\/p>\n

Wasteland<\/p>\n

The young women were last seen on CCTV footage from Friday evening, which showed them getting into a white pickup truck.<\/p>\n

Their bodies were found at the house where their mobile phone signal was last detected.<\/p>\n

The burned-out truck was later found in a section of wasteland 100m from the house.<\/p>\n

Four people have so far been arrested.<\/p>\n

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