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Bloody
repression in Peru on second day of state of
emergency
• Four
deaths and 36 injured to date in Puno
LIMA.—
At least four students died and 36 people were
injured this Thursday in clashes between
demonstrators and police in Puno (southeastern Peru)
on the second day of the declared state of
emergency. AFP cables.
 Issac
Manzaneda, director of that city’s regional
hospital, confirmed that a number of the injured are
grave and said that the hospital was placed on red
alert to attend to urgent casualty cases.
The
confrontation came at the Antiplano University in
Puno, 1,200 kilometers southeast of Lima, where
police and soldiers fired on students gathered at
the university, according to students themselves and
Lima radio broadcasts.
The
situation in Puno is tense and embattled and
hundreds of students are marching on the main
square, heavily guarded by soldiers and police.
Other
students groups are outside the regional hospital,
shouting slogans against the forces of order and
backing the strike of teachers and Judiciary
employees.
The
previous day, the first in the state of emergency,
95 persons were arrested and 16 police and 20
civilians injured in confrontations between strikers
and the forces of order, according to government
reports.
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