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The city of Miami Beach (Florida, USA) declared a

state of emergency on Monday and imposed a curfew

to counteract the disorders registered during the weekend that left five people wounded by gunshots, in the middle of spring break

(Spring Break).

The curfew will come into force

from this Thursday and will continue until Monday,

and will be between

12 in the morning and 6 in the morning,

according to the city administrator,

Alina Hudak,

who specified this Monday at a press conference.

He added that the measure will be applied in the portion of the city that goes from 23rd Street to its southern limit.

The official indicated that she will sign an emergency order for this weekend's curfew, while for next weekend she will make a formal request to the plenary

session of the Miami Beach Commission (Council),

which she trusts will come out go ahead.

"Our city has passed its final limit," Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber

said at the press conference ,

lamenting the number of police resources that the authorities have been forced to deploy.

"We don't want

Spring Break here,

but people keep coming," lamented Gelber, who confessed that he does not have the authority to close the elevated highways that connect it with the neighboring city of Miami, as a preventive measure.

In his turn,

the chief of the local Police, Richard Clements,

pointed out that in the last four weeks the troops of this unit have

seized more than a hundred firearms,

of which 75 corresponded to last weekend, considered the

spring break

equator .

This announcement comes after two women were shot in the early hours of Monday morning in a shooting that occurred on the popular street of

Ocean Drive,

on the beachfront and populated with Art Deco buildings that represents this city on tourist posters. neighbor to Miami.

The two women, who had to be referred to a local hospital although without presenting a risk, joined three other people who were admitted early on Sunday for gunshot wounds.

The busy Ocean Drive and its surroundings, full of

bars and nightclubs,

have been for a few weeks the meeting point for hundreds of young people who spend their spring vacations in this tourist city in South Florida, and where these days its authorities have redoubled safety.

After the disorders of

last year, in which one person was killed and there were more than a thousand detainees,

in addition to the seizure of drugs and a hundred firearms, the local authorities were forced to decree a curfew .

In addition to increasing the police presence in the busiest areas, the city's mayor, Dan Gelber, has

prohibited from March 7 to 21 the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages

in Miami Beach after 2 in the morning.

Traditionally, the weekend following

St. Patrick's Day

(March 17) is when the most

springbreakers

arrive.

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