Paraguay's anti-drug prosecutor Marcelo Pessi has been killed in Colombia.

APA reports quoting Figaro that Pessi, who got married on April 30, spent her first month on the Baru Peninsula in Paraguay.

According to the witness, while on vacation, two people approached from the sea, killed the prosecutor and fled the scene.

A bodyguard who tried to intervene was also killed.

The case is being investigated by a joint investigation team from Paraguay and Colombia.