Source: Peru. Attack and fatal accident cast a shadow over the electoral process
Found on: 2022-09-28 23:54:58
Latin American Summary, September 28, 2022
A criminal attack and an accident with a balance of four deaths today cast a shadow over the campaign for the Peruvian regional and municipal elections next Sunday, in the southern Andean regions of Puno and Cusco.
The serious incidents took place last night and, in Puno, a group of rivals of the candidate for mayor of the district of Cuyocuyo, Salvador Choque, invaded his house, when a proselytizing activity was being carried out there, and shot at the attendees, injuring four of them. they.
Witnesses said that the attackers were looking for Choque, who was not there at the time, and left a warning that he renounce his candidacy because he will never be mayor, elements collected by the Police investigating the attack.
Also last night, four peasants died and 33 were injured, when a truck fell into an abyss that was transporting members of a community to the municipality of Lares, in the Cusco region, to participate in an electoral rally of the Free Peru Party, of the left.
The sub-prefect of Lares, Aurelio Yupanqui, specified that the deceased are two women and two men, there are 33 seriously and slightly injured and most were evacuated to the general hospital in the city of Cusco, capital of the region of the same name.
SOURCE: Latin Press