One Peruvian soldier has died and five are missing after being swept away by a river as they fled Sunday from a group of anti-government protesters in the southern region of Puno, close to the border with Bolivia.
The soldiers were part of a patrol moving from the city of Ilawe to Juli, where protesters set fire to a police station on Saturday when they were intercepted by an aggressive group blocking their passage, the Peruvian Armed Forces Joint Command forward, in a statement.
The patrol decided to take an alternative route and cross the Ilawe River to avoid a collision, but “due to difficulties, the flow of the river and attack with rocks and other blunt objects,” six soldiers were swept away by the current, he added. .
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