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| Four dead, 24+ hurt in Peru jail shootouts |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 02/14/2005 |
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Four inmates were killed and at least 24 were injured in gun battles at South America's biggest jail last Tuesday in what Peru's prisons chief said were gang turf wars. "It's a conflict between ... internal mafias," Wilfredo Pedraza, head of Peru's National Prison Institute, INPE, told RPP radio, commenting on the riot in Lima's Lurigancho jail. "Unfortunately in Lurigancho ... (guns) get in because of negligence and corruption. It's a reality," he said. The inmates had made no demands to authorities and were fighting over trafficking in food, alcohol and sales of cells "all the things that are hard to control in a prison the size of Lurigancho ... which has more than 8,000 inmates," Pedraza said. Jose Avila, a doctor treating some of the wounded, said there were 24 injured, the majority with gunshot wounds. Pedraza said four inmates died and 13 had been evacuated to hospitals in Lima. Pedraza said prison authorities had conducted a search of the jail in late December and early January after similar arguments between inmates, but failed to find guns. Some 50 arms were found in the jail in 2003 and 44 in 2004. Security in Peru's jails came under the spotlight recently when a key witness in the drugs trials of Peru's former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos and airline executive Fernando Zevallos was gunned down by another inmate in what Pedraza called a "contract killing" in a jail in northern Peru. The witness, Jose Maria Aguilar -- a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration informant -- had been supposed to get special protection in jail because of his testimony. Also recently, an inmate in a different prison testifying against the men escaped a third attempt on his life, prison authorities said. |
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