“15 wounded have been admitted, we have one seriously wounded. There is a civilian who has entered deceased which is a product of the conflict,” said the director of the Ica hospital (300 km south of Lima), Carlos Navea, in a video posted on the health center’s Facebook page.
Navea specified that the injured who arrived at the hospital are 12 police officers and three protesters.
The clashes occurred during the morning when the police tried to evict dozens of agricultural workers who were blocking the Pan-American highway some 290 km south of Lima in the fertile Ica region, where many agribusiness companies operate.
Tension has been growing in Peru since Monday, when there were protests in Lima, Ica and several regions of the country against the rise in fuel and food priceswhich led to the leftist president peter castle to unexpectedly impose a daytime curfew on Tuesday, which was repudiated by broad sectors of the population.
The president finally lifted the curfew in the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday, after a meeting with the opposition leaders who dominate Congress, while in the center of Lima there were clashes between protesters and police and attacks on public buildings and shops.
Agricultural workers leader Julio Carbajal told RPP radio that the deceased on the Pan-American highway is a 25-year-old worker from Huancavelica who worked in an agricultural company in Ica.
These are the first protests in the government of Castillo, who has been in power in Peru for eight months.
Source: Ambito
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