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Mass
looting in Argentina kills two (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Vandals
have pillaged several supermarkets in Argentina killing two people
and injuring at least two dozen on Friday.
RT,
22
December, 2012
The
police, who described the acts as simple looting not protests, said
that 20 supermarkets in the cities of Rosario and Villa Gobernador
Galvez had been plundered. Two people were murdered with a sharp
object in the violence which also witnessed gunfire. Around 25 people
were injured and 130 arrested during the looting about 190 miles
northeast of Buenos Aires.
Riot
police used rubber bullets to stop a mob from attacking a supermarket
in San Fernando, in Buenos Aires province. Other stores have closed
fearing the widespread robbery.
Friday’s
actions followed scenes on Thursday when 400 military policemen were
deployed in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche as dozens of
people broke into a supermarket and carried away televisions and
other electronics.
The
unrest is reminiscent of the violence during Argentina’s economic
crisis in 2001, when angry mobs overran supermarkets and shops.
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