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Weekly Report - 23 March 2017 (WR-17-11)

El Salvador celebrates reduction in violence; shootout follows

A shootout in central San Salvador between private security guards and mara gang members claimed six lives on the most violent day of the year so far in El Salvador. In total 30 people were killed in the country on 15 March, including a further nine in San Martín, in the department of San Salvador. Just hours beforehand the justice and security minister, Mauricio Ramírez Landaverde, had boasted that the homicide figure for the year to 14 March was down by nearly two-thirds on the same period in 2016.

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