Authorities: 3 killed during looting after Colombia protest
Posted Nov 22, 2019 12:52:48 PM.
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BOGOTA — Colombian officiasl say three people have died in what they describe as violent clashes with police during looting after a day of mostly peaceful protest.
Defence Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said Friday the deaths happened in two different locations near the southwestern Colombian city of Cali.
The minister said two people died in Buenaventura late Thursday after police were attacked as they responded to looting at a mall.
He provided no details on who died or how they were killed.
In the second incident, police said one person was killed in Candelaria after a group looting a supermarket shot at officers.
Authorities say 250,000 people around the nation protested Thursday in one of Colombia’s largest demonstrations in recent history
The Associated Press
