AP News. Nicaraguan students reunite with families after attacks

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cristobal venegas

Jul 14, 2018

Location: NICARAGUA

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — More than 200 Nicaraguan university students were reunited with their parents Saturday after a tense night of armed attacks that left two dead and dozens wounded. The students had sought refuge in a local church after police forced them out of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, which had been occupied during two months of protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega. "It was a really hard night. They discharged their entire heavy arsenal against stones and mortars," said a sobbing young man who declined to give his name out of fear. "They wanted to kill us all."

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Cristóbal Venegas
Photographer

Cristobal Venegas photographer

Photojournalist in Latin America and South America, based in Chile. Fotoperiodista en latinoamerica y Sur America, radicado en Chile

Cristóbal Venegas Photographer

Cristobal Venegas photographer

Photojournalist in Latin America and South America, based in Chile. Fotoperiodista en latinoamerica y Sur America, radicado en Chile

Cristóbal Venegas
Photographer