Saturday, February 11, 2012

Mob attacks police station following death of local man

Some 2,000 people attacked a police station Tuesday night in the Andean town of Celendín, in Peru’s northern Cajamarca Department following the death of a 27-year-old man in police custody. According to daily El Comercio, the mob was armed with stones and sticks. They burned two police vehicles, a motorcycle, several computers and police archives. [...]