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[Judi Lynn]

A mayor in Peru was accused of lying in a coffin and pretending to be dead to avoid being caught disobeying lockdown orders
K. Thor Jensen 1 hour ago

Police in Peru say a small-town mayor attempted to dodge capture for flouting lockdown orders by hiding in a coffin and pretending to be a corpse.

Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, the mayor of Tantará, a rural district in Castrovirreyna, was out drinking with friends Monday night when police came to enforce a curfew, the Evening Standard reported.

By the time authorities arrived, though, Torres was lying in an open casket pretending to be a coronavirus fatality, with his eyes tightly closed and a mask over face, according to the Times of London. His friends hid in drawers in the same room.



Police released this photo of Tantará's mayor, Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, hiding in a coffin. Courtesy of Policía Nacional del Perú

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Tens of thousands of Peruvians made jobless by the national lockdown have left large cities for their rural hometowns, spreading the virus even further.

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