At least one man was killed in violence at a rally in Peru’s capital on Wednesday, said Peruvian President Jose Jeri, whose accession days ago has failed to stamp out angry protests against the political class in the South American nation.
The Peruvian Ombudsman’s Office said that 102 people were injured — 24 civilians and 78 police — updating earlier tolls.
Demonstrations led by young people brought thousands of Peruvians, frustrated by the authorities’ failure to resolve a worsening crime crisis, onto the streets in Lima and several other cities.
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Some protesters tried to breach the security barrier around the Peruvian Congress as night fell, a correspondent said.
Others in the crowd also hurled stones and lit fireworks.
Police in riot gear responded with tear gas.
“I regret the death of 32-year-old citizen Eduardo Ruiz Sanz,” Jeri said on X, without elaborating on the circumstances.
Non-governmental organization the National Human Rights Coordinator said that the man might have been shot by a plainclothes police officer.
Images showed the blood-covered face of a police officer who had been hit by a stone.
Jeri also said the “peaceful demonstration” had been infiltrated by criminals seeking to “cause chaos.”
The South American country has been rocked by protests for weeks. Lawmakers on Friday last week voted to impeach then-Peruvian president Dina Boluarte for “permanent moral incapacity,” who critics blamed for a surge in crime and accused of corruption.
“I think there is general discontent because nothing has been done,” 49-year-old freelancer Amanda Meza told reporters while marching toward Congress.
“There’s no security from the state,” she said, adding that cases of extortion and contract killings “have grown massively in Peru.”
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