Theft in school for foreign students

Theft in school for foreign students

HAVANA, Cuba - July 6 (José Antonio Fornaris, Cuba-Verdad /
www.cubanet.org) - There was a theft Sunday night at the Salvador
Allende school for foreign students in the outskirts of Havana, and
authorities reportedly consider any incidents related to the school a
sensitive matter, because they have not divulged what precisely was
taken, or even acknowledged that there was an incident.

However, at 9:30 p.m. Sunday there were one unmarked and four patrol
cars outside the school's gate to Vento Avenue. A passing policeman said
there had been shots fired inside the school.

A school employee who wished to remain unnamed confirmed there had been
a theft, adding that such incidents at the school are not unusual, but
that authorities have issued a directive that the thieves be apprehended
away from the school to keep the students in the dark.

The employee pointed out that in a previous incident, involving the
theft of hams and cheeses from the school's stock room, the thieves were
not apprehended until they were eight kilometers away, under the
Calabazar bridge.

The school currently houses several hundred students from Venezuela and
Bolivia who are preparing to enter the university.

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