PERU: RIOTS OVER PRICE INCREASES LEAD TO DECLARATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY.

Record ID: 1061615

  • Title: PERU: RIOTS OVER PRICE INCREASES LEAD TO DECLARATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY.
  • Date: 4th July 1976
  • Summary: 1. GV Rioters rush towards overturned vehicle 0.05 2. MV Police rush up street with helicopter flying overhead (2 shots) 0.08 3. MV Smoke bombs PAN TO policeman walking towards demonstrators (3 shots) 0.24 4. MV Ambulance drives off as policemen remove barricades of rocks from streets (2 shots) 0.30 5. MV PAN People stand watching with demonstrators in back of police truck (2 shots) 0.42 6. MV Police patrolling street 0.43 7. MV Bullet holes in bank windows (2 shots) 0.46 8. MV Vehicles slowed down by debris in road 0.51 9. MV Burnt out bus (2 shots) 0.58 10. MV PAN Burnt out supermarket and coach (2 shots) 1.12 11. MV Police standing in doorway whilst armoured car patrols market (2 shots) 1.22 12. MV People queuing outside shops PAN TO troops passing on truck 1.26 Four of the five killed in the troubles were convicts who were escaping from jail at the height of the demonstrations. The Peruvian President, Francisco Morales Bermudez, clamped a 10 p.m. to five a.m. curfew on the capital. Reliable banking sources say the country has run up debts of 3,000 million U.S. dollars (about GBP1,700 million sterling). The doubling of petrol prices was part of a programme to overcome these debts, and alleviate the inflation rate. Initials BB/2030 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th July 1976 13:00
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  • Location: LIMA, PERU
  • Country: Peru
  • Reuters ID: LVA5R9SMZ1DKK42XJ511BSPM0NXR
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