{"id":60617,"date":"2020-02-03T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60617"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:55:49","slug":"fourth-death-as-protests-grow-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60617","title":{"rendered":"Fourth death as protests grow in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SANTIAGO, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a supermarket was torched in Chile\u2019s capital Friday, and another succumbed to injuries sustained in clashes with police, bringing the death toll in a new wave of unrest to four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protests that flared up in October \u2014 initially over a rise in metro fares \u2014 had appeared to have calmed down during the summer holidays in Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there has been a spike in violent protests this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mob looted and then set fire to the supermarket in southern Santiago in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When firefighters arrived they found a dead man aged 30 to 40 and two other people suffering from signs of asphyxiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He died from \u201casphyxiation by inhaling carbon monoxide,\u201d police chief Carolina Nunez told local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another man died Friday, two days after being shot in the head during a protest near a police station in southern Santiago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday a young man died after being hit by a hijacked bus and a football fan was killed on Tuesday after he was hit by a police van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another supermarket in the capital was looted overnight while police arrested 16 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burning barricades could be seen in several roads in Santiago on Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 30 people have died in protests that began initially as a reaction to a modest hike in metro fares in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They quickly mushroomed into wider discontent at inequality and the rejection of billionaire President Sebastian Pinera and his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinera has launched a raft of measures to try to quell the unrest, including a rise in the minimum wage and state pensions, and health reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will also hold a referendum in April on changing the dictatorship-era constitution. — NNN-AGENCIES
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