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(CNN Spanish) - Chilean security officials reported on Saturday morning that, preliminary, 308 people arrested after the riots recorded this Friday in Santiago are counted.
The authorities added that 167 injured people have also been reported, of which 11 are civilians and the rest are police officers.
"During the night we had no major excesses," said Javier Iturriaga, head of the National Defense. "There was no major deterioration of the infrastructure."
- State of emergency and crisis in Santiago due to the rise in subway tickets
The head of the National Defense said that "after two or three in the morning" the riots declined and some isolated events were recorded.
“Today in the morning the city looks calm, but nevertheless we have many tasks to do, we are not calm. We have to try to make everyone come back to work on Monday and make a normal life. ”
State of Emergency due to increased subway tickets
President Sebastián Piñera decreed on Friday a state of emergency, called an exception regime, due to riots in the streets of Santiago, the Chilean capital, after five days of protests against the rise in the passage of underground transport, implemented by the government of Sebastián Piñera this week and he left the adult rate at $ 1.20 during peak hours.
In the streets of Santiago there were barricades, burned buildings, clashes with the police and destroyed Metro stations.
On Monday, students promoted mobilizations, but thousands of adult workers joined in over the days, who accuse that the minimum wage remains at about $ 420, which would imply an expense of almost $ 48 a month just to go back and forth. of work using the Metro.
Since the government, meanwhile, justify the rise due to the price of the dollar and oil, among other factors, and rejected violence in the demonstrations.
- With information from Christopher Ulloa from Chile
Protests in Chile