Lima, Mar 6 (EFE).- Six soldiers have died while trying to cross the Ilave river after fleeing from anti-government protesters in Puno in southern Peru, officials said Monday. The divers of the Captain of Ports department worked all day to recover the bodies of five of the deceased after finding the first one on Sunday. …
Lima, Mar 7 (EFE).- Peru’s transitional president, Dina Boluarte, spent just over an hour Tuesday answering questions from Attorney General Patricia Benavides about the deaths of at least 48 protesters at the hands of security forces in the last three months. Boluarte arrived at the AG Office around 8:50 am in an official vehicle and …
LIMA, Peru Six soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where protests demanding the resignation of Peru s president have turned violent, military officials said Monday.
Six Peruvian soldiers have drowned after jumping into a freezing river while fleeing anti-government protesters in the country's south, the defense ministry has said.
Lima, Mar 5 (EFE).- Five Peruvian soldiers remain missing after having been dragged by the current of a river on Sunday while fleeing a group of anti-government protesters in the southern Puno region in an incident in which one soldier was killed, military sources said. The soldiers were part of a patrol travelling from the …