Former President Alan García is dead: he fired a shot before being arrested

The former president of Peru, Alan García, died Wednesday. The first morning, he shot himself in the head when the national police had entered his home in the Miraflores district to execute a preliminary arrest warrant against him for ten days. Brazilian Odebrecht.

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"This morning, this unfortunate accident happened: the president decided to kill himself by shooting," said his lawyer, Erasmo Reyna, at the door of Casimiro Ulloa Emergency Hospital in Lima.

Health Minister Zulema Tomas announced that Alan García was "in a very critical and very serious situation". He also reported that the former head of state had been the subject of three cardio-respiratory arrests.