UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is demanding an independent investigation into the recent escalation of violence in the Colombian city of Cali, RIA Novosti reported.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) earlier reported that armed individuals, including members of the judicial police, opened fire on demonstrators, journalists covering the protests, and passers-by. 

In total, since May 28, 14 people have died in Cali and 98 people have been injured, 54 of them from firearms.

These developments are all the more alarming given the progress made in resolving through dialogue the social unrest that erupted a month ago after the start of a nationwide strike against a range of social and economic government measures, Bachelet noted.