Around 30 students were injured, five of them seriously, when they threw Molotov cocktails inside a secondary school in the capital. Chile,Santiago.
According to the country’s authorities, in circumstances that have not yet been specified, the mechanisms were activated, causing burns to a large number of students who were in the bathrooms.
According to local media, cited by French AgencyThe devices lit up at noon as students prepared an end-of-year celebration for their senior classmates.
“Molotov cocktails are weapons”
“Molotov cocktails are weapons”, commented the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Toa, stressing that improvised incendiary devices cannot be accepted.
In recent years, students from this educational institution (Internado Nacional Barros Arana – INBA) have organized demonstrations on several occasions, some of which were marked by clashes with the police, demanding more resources for public education.
With information from APE-MPE, AFP