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Bogota (dpa) - A house in the historic Caribbean city of Cartagena de Indias that belongs to Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was broken into by thiefs while it was uninhabited, Colombian media reported on Friday.
According to Colombian radio RCN, the thieves took a safe that contained no valuables from the house of the winner of the 1982 Nobel Price for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, among other works.
The area's security personnel did not notice the trespassers, who left Garcia Marquez's house through an adjoining old building that is being rehabilitated.
The thieves chose to take the safe but left behind valuable paintings that hang on the walls of the house, which the author visits several times a year.
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