
Oil protests turn deadly as 79 police taken hostage, 2 people killed
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Protests in Colombia have taken a violent turn after residents took 79 police officers hostage and two people died in the clash.
The protesters have demanded help to repair and build new roads in the area. A police officer, Ricardo Monroy, and a civilian died during the blockade. President Gustavo Petro decried the killings in a statement on Twitter. Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news.
"We have a popular movement which by its exclusion and the influence of groups which want to destroy this government and subsume Colombia in war, has ended up murdering a young policeman," Petro said.
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