Violent deaths down

Police spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Diego Pesqueira has announced that so far this year 1,626 people have lost their lives due to violence, defined as murder or gunfire exchanges, which is a decrease of 13% over last year.

Pesqueira also said that there has been a reduction of four percentage points in the rate of violent deaths, reducing from 25 deaths per 100,000 population to 21.

He went on to say that most of the deaths, 1,065, were due to social conflict, although that too had decreased by 16% over last year when the figure stood at 1,268. He also stated that the numbers of people killed by the police had reduced as well from 186 last year, to 159 this year.

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