SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Police found seven bodies in Paya towship, Baní, in Dominican Republic’s south coast, six of them Colombians and one Dominicn, an incident authorities call a "typical drug rip-off."

Tuesday afternoon Police spokesman Nelson Rosario said a Nicaragua national whose name he didn’t disclose, and who is believed to be involved in the incident, was shot and is in stable condition, whereas at the murder site one other was still alive when the agents arrived in the rural community, some 60 kilometers west of the capital, Santo Domingo.

“They were all tied up in a row,” the official said, adding that a long range radio was found in the residence of four of the seven victims, where according to the Colombians’ watchman, Emilio Basilio Victoria, several men struck him with a weapon and bound the maid before taking their employers away.

The bodies with gunshot wounds were found in a cane field near the beach Sabana Uvero, in the community Ojo de Agua, of the Bani municipality, but the authorities have yet to disclose further details and an investigation is underway.

According to National Inestigation Department (DNI) director Sigfrido Pared, the killings are "typical of rip-off" when drugs are stolen by a rival gang.

In that area of the country cocaine and heroin are often airdropped by planes or shipped on speedboats from South America.

Newspaper Diario Libre and radio program El Poder de la Tardereport that the bodies’ hands were tied, while Police investigators estimate that the killings took place between 12 midnight and 1 a.m., after the kidnapping suspects took two bags whose content weren't disclosed, always quoting Victoria.

One of the Colombians is reportedly Jesús de David del Río Hans, 28, whereas the Dominican is identified only as Manolo.