“We have recorded seven deaths” since Sunday, the source in the Ombudsman’s office told AFP.
Five people died yesterday Monday in the new incidents that broke out in Peru, in the regions of Arequipa (south) and Chincheros (southeast), as protests against the new president Dina Bolluarte and in favor of calling elections continue throughout the country, increasing in seven dead, the death toll since Sunday, said a source close to the Ombudsman (s.s. DefensorÃa del Pueblo, an independent public authority responsible for the protection of constitutional rights and freedoms) of the Latin American country.
“We have recorded seven deaths” since Sunday, the source in the Ombudsman’s office told AFP.
Four people were killed in a march that pushed back police riot units in Chincheros, in the Apurimaque region, Ms. Boluarte’s hometown.
The fifth death of the day was recorded in Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city, where police intervened to expel from the airport hundreds of protesters who had occupied the runway and set up burning barricades.
On Sunday, two people, a teenage girl and a young man, were killed in Adavailas, also in Apurimak.
Among the five people killed yesterday, three were teenagers, one 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds.
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