Several dozen protesters hit and threw stones on the minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday in a region in the south of the country ravaged by fires, according to local media.
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While leaving a communal center in the city of Lago Pueblo, in the province of Chubut (south) in Patagonia, the head of state had to protect himself behind a human corridor in the face of the advance of the protesters.
The latter then stopped the minibus carrying the president, hitting the vehicle with kicks and punches and throwing stones in its direction, according to images broadcast by the TN channel and the daily Clarin.
The fires in the region have left one dead, eleven missing since the start of the week.
Dozens of people had to be evacuated in front of the advance of the flames and around 200 homes were destroyed, according to a latest report dating from Friday.
The fires devastated 1,500 hectares of forest according to the Civil Defense, up to 15,000 according to the press.
The fires caused "
enormous damage
", underlined in the week the Minister of the Environment, Juan Cabandié, specifying that several localities no longer had either water or electricity.