For several days the students of the district University Demonstrations are taking place in several of its locations, mainly due to the deterioration of the institution’s infrastructure, as well as against the administration for cases of corruption and against police abuse. According to the students, there are teachers who have not received their salary and some of the campuses do not have basic public services.
However, the day of demonstrations this Wednesday, June 1, has been one of the most intense, as there were strong clashes between students and the Mobile Anti-riot Squad (Esmad). near the avenues Villavicencio with Gaitán Cortés, in the south of Bogota.
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According to images released by the authorities, in the midst of the demonstrations, a potato bomb exploded near a group of hooded protesters inside the university, affecting one of the young people who was there.
“When the bomb hit the solid element, it explodes with the elements inside it and this shrapnel comes out without direction and the effects are generated,” said the commander of the Bogotá Police, Major General Eliécer Camacho Jiménez.
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Two young men seriously injured
After the clashes, Camacho also announced that two young people were seriously injured, for which they had to be transferred to a health center. “A young man who enters the Barraquer clinic with a eye involvement, The medical opinion is awaited. Likewise, the admission of a student to the El Tunal clinic is reported, who apparently has severe head traumait is important to wait for the medical opinion,” he said.
The facts are subject to investigation by the authorities.
