A police intervention against a score of young people who played soccer this Sunday in the Peruvian capital despite being prohibited by the pandemic left a civilian killed and two officers woundedthe police reported.
The events took place in the Callao area, when the police tried to disperse a group of people who were playing a soccer game and encountered resistance from the neighbors.
In the middle of the struggles a shot It hit Raymundo Choque, 52, who arrived dead at the San José del Callao hospital. Two policemen were injured.
In the images recorded by neighbors, the two officers trying to defend themselves from attacks. When they are thrown to the ground, a shot is heard and a civilian immediately falls to the ground along with one of the policemen.
At the end of October, the Peruvian government extended the state of health emergency for a month due to the new coronavirus pandemic, which includes the ban on public gatherings and car traffic on Sundays and night curfew every day.
Peru registers more than 920,000 cases of COVID-19 and 34,840 dead.
