SANTO DOMINGO.- The execution-style killings of the antinarcotics agents has sparked widespread reaction against the actions of drug traffickers, which some describe as “an open challenge to the authorities.”

Last night the antinarcotics agent Guillermo Tejeda Kranwinkel, shot in San Cristóbal (south) Monday afternoon, died in a Santo Domingo hospital, the National Control Drugs Agency (DNCD) said.

The Dominican Human Rights Commission (CDDH) is the latest entity to offer its “absolute support” to the DNCD in the war against drug trafficking, which has claimed the lives of two of its members, murdered by alleged drug traffickers.

A team of lawyers of the CDDH, headed by its president Manuel M. Mercedes, visited DNCD chief Rafael Ramirez yesterday to offer their moral and professional support.

"We are with you; it’s our duty to support this titanic work which you are carrying out with seriousness in this fight. We join you in the pain the DNCD family suffers, just as the relatives of the assassinated officials, especially those of Tejeda, who was a beloved young man," said Mercedes said.

Tejeda was a National Police second lieutenant assigned to the DNCD, whereas last week second lieutenant Elpidio Antonio Jiménez, a supervisor of inspectors at Boca Chica port, was gunned down allegedly by Colombian assassins.

RD$100,000 reward offered.

The DNCD today announced it will offer a RD$100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the two agents' killers.