US citizen arrested in Guatemala in fatal hit-and-run

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AP Guatemala City
Last Updated : Apr 30 2017 | 7:57 AM IST
Guatemalan authorities say a 25-year-old US citizen accused of driving into a crowd of protesting students killing one and injuring more than a dozen others is in custody.
The students were protesting a shortage of teachers at their school Wednesday when a car plowed into them and then fled. The damaged car was found later abandoned at a parking lot. Inside investigators found a residential access card in the suspect's name and the car was registered to his father, an evangelical pastor.
Mayra Veliz, secretary general of the Public Ministry, said yesterday in a news conference that the suspect drove over the victims and then accelerated and drove away.
Roosevelt Hospital had announced earlier yesterday that one of the victims, a 15-year-old girl, had died from her injuries.

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First Published: Apr 30 2017 | 7:57 AM IST

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