translated from Spanish: At least five dead and 22 wounded leave demonstrations in Bolivia

At least five people were killed and more than 20 injured, there would be demonstrations in Bolivia near the city of Cochabamba, where there were serious clashes of the protesters with the police and the Armed Forces. The representative in Cochabamba of Bolivia’s Ombudsman’ Office, Nelson Cox, said that “we pitifully have five (dead) in Sacaba.” He also claimed that the bodies are of protesters and were transferred to the Mexico Hospital of Sacaba, a neighboring city of Cochabamba, “with gunshot wounds”, and died before arriving. Cox argued that joint police and military forces had “disproportionate” action against the demonstration, which in the preceding days had already been shot wounded among protesters.” We have had since Sunday an escalation of interventions by the joint, police and armed forces, which have had their interventions disproportionately,” Cox concluded. The clashes occurred when cocaleros, coming from the tropics of Cochabamba, were trying to enter the city, where law enforcement had installed controls on the accesses. Apparently his final destination is to get to La Paz.

Original source in Spanish