An armed gang containing at least five delinquents took over a private neighbourhood close to the Greater Buenos Aires area of Luján and took at least twenty-seven people hostage, thereafter ransacking four homes.
Tension was created between military officers and residents of the San Fernando area after three hundred people tried to ransack and loot the Carrefour hypermarket on the Panamerican highway.
Chilean police stormed today three schools in the centre of Santiago, overtaken by students for the past week, and arrested 139 young people who were involved in the protests demanding education reform.