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Peruvian riot police have clashed with hundreds of teachers who have been striking over salaries.
Officials say at least 30 people were injured Thursday as the demonstrators looted and burned buildings in the Andean city of Ayacucho, south of Lima.
The violence broke out after police used tear gas to evict teachers from city offices they had occupied for several days. The educators went on strike June 21.
Authorities alleged the Shining Path guerrilla movement was behind the trouble. But they ruled out declaring a state of emergency.
Ayacucho was the birthplace of the Maoist-inspired Shining Path, one of Latin America's most feared rebel organizations throughout the 1980s.
The group was weakened considerably following the arrest of its founder, Abimael Guzman, in 1992.
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