FILM SHOWS FUNERAL PROCESSIONS MOVING THROUGH THE STREETS OF LIMA TO THE PANTHEON NATIONAL CEMETERY WHERE MOST OF THE VICTIMS ARE BEING BURIED.




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Background: TRAGIC SCENES IN LIMA, THE CAPITAL OF PERU, AS MORE VICTIMS OF LAST SUNDAY'S SOCCER RIOT ARE BURIED. CROWDS ACCOMPANY THE COFFINS AS THEY ARE SOLEMNLY CARRIED TO THE CEMETERIES.

THE REGULAR POLICE, WHO ARE BEING WIDELY ACCUSED OF TRIGGERING OFF THE RIOT WHICH KILLED ABOUT THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE, ARE REPLACED ON THE STREETS BY SPECIAL ARMY POLICE.

THE PREVAILING MOOD IN THE CITY HAS BECOME ONE OF DEEP SADNESS AFTER THE INITIAL ANGER WHICH LED TO TWO DAYS RIOTING AFTER THE DISASTER.