Peru’s political crisis deepened on Tuesday as a police officer died in his torched car after 17 civilians were killed in protests a day earlier, all triggered by the contentious ouster of President Pedro Castillo last month. Raul Alfaro, a senior police commander, told reporters that a mob "ambushed" the police officer’s vehicle in the city of Juliaca in the southern Andes region of Puno, and then proceeded to beat him and other officers while disarming them.
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