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Sunday, December 27, 2015
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Little Girl Dies Under Collapsing Stage at Christmas Event in Peru
LIMA – An 8-year-old girl died at a Christmas event in the southern Peruvian city of Sicuani when the stage under which she had taken shelter from the rain collapsed on top of her, media outlets reported Friday.
The young victim was taking part in a gift-giving event organized by several companies in Sicuani in the Cuzco region, when a sudden cloudburst sent everyone running for cover, either underneath or on top of the stage set up for the occasion, the state news agency Andina reported.
The weight of the people was too much for the stage, which fell apart, crashed down and killed the little girl, police said.
“It was an accident caused by the number of people who went onstage when it started to rain, a tragic situation that police are investigating to find out who was at fault,” commander Ruben Pantoja told Andina.
A provincial prosecutor ordered the removal of the body and an investigation is currently underway to identify the people responsible.
Two Slain in Attack on Police Station in Venezuela
CARACAS – Two police officers were gunned down outside a police station in Caracas, while two other members of the Venezuelan security forces were killed in separate incidents elsewhere in the Andean nation, authorities said Friday.
A 24-year-old man was set to be arraigned in connection with the deaths of officers Cesar Sanchez and Zaid Peña during an attack in the wee hours of Thursday at a police station in western Caracas, the Attorney General’s Office said.
Three other policemen were wounded in that assault.
The investigation of the attack led police to a home where they found and freed two kidnapping victims, the AG Office said.
Separately, a policeman was fatally shot in front of his family while celebrating Christmas at their home in the central state of Miranda, Union Radio reported.
In the western state of Carabobo, according to Union Radio, an agent of Venezuela’s Sebin intelligence service died after being shot twice by robbers who took his gun.
The Venezuela Violence Observatory, an NGO, says the country has a homicide rate of 82 per 100,000 residents, nearly 10 times the global median. The government cites a figure of 62 murders for every 100,000 inhabitants.
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