The clashes between the protesters, who are part of the transport and agriculture sectors, and the police, were particularly harsh in Lime and in the port city Callao.
The newspaper La República reports today that the last of the fatal victims of the violence was Yhoni Quinto Contreras, who died after being hit by “a stray bullet to the head.”
Today, in Huancayo, department of Junín, one of the areas where the protests are most intense, President Pedro Castillo will chair a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The demonstrators ask for measures to contain the increase in the price of fuel and food.
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has announced the opening of an investigation to clarify the death of three people in the provinces of Jauja Y Conception during the citizen protests registered between March 28 and April 2, as reported in a statement.
Thus, the Prosecutor’s Office has detailed that the death of the minor whose body was found in the waters of the Yacus River, in the district of Ataura, in the province of Jauja, will be investigated by the Provincial Criminal Corporate Prosecutor’s Office of this region.
It has also indicated that the death of the teacher Candy Magaly Hinostroza de la Cruz, who on March 28 would have been run over at the height of the Las Balsas Bridge, in Concepción, will be carried out by the Provincial Criminal Corporate Prosecutor’s Office of this area.
“Citizen Jorge Maldonado Landeo, 82 years old, from the district of Huaripampa (Jauja), would have died – last weekend – for not having received his treatment in a timely manner at a hospital in Huancayo,” he said in a statement, adding that “the death was not reported to the Public Ministry”.
In addition, the Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has opened a preliminary investigation against 37 detainees for the alleged crime of “aggravated disturbance” and others, in the provinces of Huancayo, where there were 33 detainees, in Concepción, with one detainee, and Jauja, with three.
The clashes between the protesters and the Peruvian Police provoked police charges, as well as the dispersal of the crowd with tear gas in the city of Huancayo, where looting and destruction of urban furniture were also recorded.
Source: Ambito
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