Lima, Peru (CNN) At least 13 people have been killed and three others injured in a stampede at a nightclub in Lima, Peru, as partygoers attempted to escape a police raid on the venue, according to Orlando Velasco Mujica, general of the Peruvian National Police.
Police were called to the Thomas Restobar in the Los Olivos district of Peru's capital city on Saturday evening to shut down an illegal party that more than 120 people were attending.
Social distancing measures are mandated in Peru, large social gatherings are banned and there is a nationwide 10 p.m. curfew in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Peru was one of the first nations in the Americas to take strict preventative coronavirus measures, but is now one of the worst affected countries in Latin America, with more than 576,000 cases, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University . More than 27,000 have died of the virus so far, JHU reports.
In an official statement, the Ministry of the Interior reported that the police did not use "any type of weapon or tear gas to clear the premises." When people began to flee the 2nd floor venue trying to get away from the police they were crushed on the stairs.
BeHappyYouDeserveIt1 on August 23rd, 2020 at 17:03 UTC »
Ooooh Peru is in the news!!!
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.... Ah fuck. Peru is in the news.
hideousbeautifulface on August 23rd, 2020 at 16:10 UTC »
You really have no idea how terrifying and powerless you are in a stampede until you experience it yourself. My senior class went to universal studios for grad bash and it was just thousands of kids waiting a the gates for it to open up. As soon as I opened it was a literal stampede. I was almost trampled. I still don’t know how I survived and made it out. One of the most terrifying times of my life.
keef_cookie on August 23rd, 2020 at 14:22 UTC »
13 people died because of a stampede that is the most useless loss of life I’ve ever heard