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Tragedy in Los Olivos | Eleven of the thirteen deceased in the Los Olivos nightclub were infected with COVID-19

The Public Ministry reported this Sunday that eleven of the thirteen deceased in the disco ‘Thomas Restobar’ of The Olives, on Saturday night, they were infected by the COVID-19. The expertise was in charge of the Institute of Legal Medicine.

“The autopsies will be carried out tomorrow, Monday, August 24, in compliance with the biosecurity procedures required in these circumstances, especially because 11 bodies have been identified infected with the virus”, They explain in the statement.

The provincial prosecutor Carlos Díaz Casimiro, head of the Fourth Office of the Second Provincial Criminal Corporate Prosecutor’s Office of Los Olivos, is in charge of the case and directs the proceedings to find those responsible for the tragedy.

The police raided the nightclub where 120 people participated in a party called through social networks, violating the rule that prohibits group meetings in Peru due to the state of health emergency due to COVID-19.

Faced with the police intervention, which did not use any type of weapon or tear gas bomb, those attending the party tried to escape through the only entrance door, running over themselves and being trapped between the door and a staircase in the premises, “the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Twelve women and one man died of suffocation after the stampede unleashed at the ‘Thomas Restobar’ nightclub. President Martin Vizcarra he lamented the tragedy and expressed his “anger at irresponsibility” of the party organizers.


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