Dr. Marcia Calderon at the health clinic in the Madre de Dios state
town of Mazuko says it's not clear how many of the wounds suffered
Thursday were caused by bullets and how many by shotgun pellets.
The
miners have been blocking the interoceanic highway intermittently over
the past two weeks to protest an April 19 government deadline for all
informal gold mining to halt. The alluvial mining is ravaging Peru's
rainforest and poisoning animals and humans with mercury.
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