Demonstrators in Chile set a university building ablaze and ransacked a church Friday at the close of an otherwise peaceful rally marking three weeks of unprecedented
protests against social and economic inequality.
Protesters clashed with
police who had set up barricades to protect private Pedro de Valdivia University, and shortly thereafter the wooden roof of its 100-year-old administration building began to burn, witnesses said.
Nearby, hooded
protesters looted the church of La Asuncion, which was built in 1876, dragging furniture outside and setting it alight.