Peru's ex-president Garcia takes own life

By Mitra Taj and Marco Aquino
Updated April 18 2019 - 9:28am, first published 9:25am
Former Peruvian president Alan Garcia has taken his own life to avoid arrest over a bribery probe.
Former Peruvian president Alan Garcia has taken his own life to avoid arrest over a bribery probe.

Peru's former president Alan Garcia has shot himself in the head to avoid arrest in connection with alleged bribes from Brazilian builder Odebrecht, taking his own life, in the most dramatic turn yet in Latin America's largest graft scandal.

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