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Large groups of protesters hurled stones and clashed with police in Peru’s coastal region of Ica on the seventh day of anger over fuel prices.
The development comes though the day before President Pedro Castillo lifted the curfew in the capital Lima aimed at quelling national demonstrations.
Thousands of people have been protesting for days in the country’s major cities against rising fuel prices, rising highway taxes and job insecurity.
VIDEO: Hundreds of demonstrators throw stones at police and block roads in Peru’s coastal region of Ica to protest rising fuel prices and tolls.
The violence came a day after President Pedro Castillo called off a curfew in Lima aimed at curbing nationwide demonstrations pic.twitter.com/jmvVplrXHJ
– AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 7, 2022
At least three victims and dozens injured have been reported in the anger movement against the heaviest inflation in 26 years according to the media.
Prosecutors said they would investigate three deaths during protests in the towns of Jauja e Concepción earlier this month.
They said one of the protesters killed was a minor, found in river water Yacus in Jauja.
Another protester is believed to have been killed by police car at the Las Balsas demonstration in Concepción.
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