The mayor of a small town in Peru, Jamie Rolando Urbina Torres has
been caught after he lay in a coffin and pretended to be a dead
Coronavirus patient to avoid being arrested.
Torres was caught by police violating coronavirus lockdown rules
while drinking with friends. When officers came to arrest him in the
town of Tantará, in the south of the country, he lay down in an open
casket and played dead.
A photo of the mayor wearing a face mask and lying in the coffin has been circulated online.
Police say he violated curfew and social distancing laws in order
to drink liquor with his friends, and was drunk when he was arrested.
It is not clear exactly where he and his friends were drinking, or why there were open caskets there.
Torres has previously been accused by locals of failing to take the
threat of the virus seriously and failing to implement safety
precautions in the town. Locals say Torres has spent just eight days in
the town since the start of the lockdown, and has failed to put in place
any local safety measures.
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