The Bolivian Navy rescues the body of a Peruvian in Lake Titicaca

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La Paz, 24 Mar The Bolivian Navy found this Thursday the body of a man of Peruvian nationality in Lake Titicaca, shared with Peru, near the border town of Desaguadero and handed it over to the police authorities for investigation. This is Ruddy B., 42, who was found lifeless in Lake Titicaca in the Tijuni sector, 24 hours after starting his search, according to a statement from that entity. The general directorate of captaincies of the Bolivian Navy reported that after recovering the man's body, it handed it over to the police authorities so that the investigation of the incident could begin. The man was sailing on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, near the Kassa-Santa Rosa sector where the ship suffered “a shipwreck”, according to the bulletin. The boat had left from the border town of Desaguadero to the town of Guaqui in Bolivia. For a week now, Bolivian carriers and inhabitants have blocked one of the main routes leading to Peru demanding that a double track be built. This Thursday, residents and sectors of the province of Ingavi protested in La Paz to demand that the Government execute the project, which they say has been postponed since 2011. This week a boat sailing through the Bolivian town of Jakonta, near Desaguadero in Peru, capsized and everyone on the ship died. The firefighters managed to rescue the body of three people, two men and one woman, while the villagers removed the body of another male. CHIEF ysm/lnm/rrt