2 dead in Nicaragua’s anti-Ortega marches

At least two demonstrators were killed and 11 others wounded in Nicaragua on Saturday, a rights group said, as thousands of demonstrators marched against President Daniel Ortega.

Dubbed the Flowers March, the protests honoured the youth killed in the more than two months of anti-Ortega unrest met with repression by government forces that has left at least 220 people dead.

A 23-year-old street vendor was shot in the head when some of the marchers strayed off the scheduled route, according to rights groups. At the beginning of the march armed men also fired on a protesters’ barricade at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua , where the Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights said one man behind student-erected barricades was killed.