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Harriet Barber in Buenos Aires

Activists blame Argentina’s government after three gay women killed in arson attack

Nighttime photo of young people with cardboard signs and bullhorn marching in urban area lit by store lights.
Protesters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 8 May 2024. Photograph: Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images

Activists in Argentina have accused the country’s far-right government of stoking homophobia after an alleged hate crime in which four gay women were set on fire, killing three and seriously injuring the fourth.

A man in his 60s is alleged to have thrown burning rags into the women’s shared bedroom of a boarding house in Buenos Aires early on 6 May.

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