Mass looting in Argentina kills two
Vandals have pillaged several supermarkets in Argentina killing two people and injuring at least two dozen on Friday.
The police, who described the acts as simple looting not protests, said that 20 supermarkets in the cities of Rosario and Villa Gobernador Galvez had been plundered. Two people were murdered with a sharp object in the violence which also witnessed gunfire. Around 25 people were injured and 130 arrested during the looting about 190 miles northeast of Buenos Aires.Riot police used rubber bullets to stop a mob from attacking a supermarket in San Fernando, in Buenos Aires province. Other stores have closed fearing the widespread robbery. Friday’s actions followed scenes on Thursday when 400 military policemen were deployed in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche as dozens of people broke into a supermarket and carried away televisions and other electronics. The unrest is reminiscent of the violence during Argentina’s economic crisis in 2001, when angry mobs overran supermarkets and shops.
