Peruvian police arrested more than 200 people for illegally entering the campus of a major Lima university, while authorities in Cusco closed the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail as deadly government measures across the country Antiwar protests spread.
Dozens of Peruvians were injured after tensions flared again on Friday as police clashed with protesters, with security forces in the capital city of Lima using tear gas to disperse protesters who threw glass bottles and stones as streets But there was a fire.
Some 46 people have been killed in weeks of clashes and another nine in traffic accidents related to barricades erected amid the protests.
205 people were arrested at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos for illegally entering the university’s campus and allegedly stealing electronic items, Alfonso Berrenchia, with the crime prevention division of the prosecutor’s office, told local radio station RPP. was done.
The university said in a statement that a group of masked protesters stormed the campus late on Friday night and removed them from the campus after taking vests and other equipment from security personnel.
In a video going viral online, an armored vehicle can be seen breaking down a gate of the university campus to allow entry of security forces.