So far we have nine dead in the morgue after the clashes in Juliaca,” in Puno region, where mainly Aymara (indigenous people) live, Nivardo Enriques Variales, coordinator of the independent authority’s office in Juliaca, told AFP.
Fresh clashes in Peru between law enforcement and protesters — who are demanding the resignation of President Dina Bolluarte, the release of former president Pedro Castillo and the calling of immediate elections — left at least nine people dead on Monday in Juliaca, during during an attempted invasion of the city’s airport in the southeastern part of the Andean country, announced the People’s Advocate, an independent authority responsible for the defense of human rights.
“We have so far nine dead in the morgue after the clashes in Juliaca,” in the mainly Aymara (indigenous) region of Puno, Nivardo Enriques Variales, coordinator of the independent authority’s office in Juliaca, told AFP.
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