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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Several injured in break-up of anti-mining protest in Argentina

Several people were injured and more than a score were arrested when police broke up an anti-mining protest near a Barrick Gold-operated mine in the northwestern Argentine province of San Juan, where a cyanide spill occurred last month, demonstrators said Friday.
The violent incident occurred after a court on Friday morning ordered a group of local residents and environmental activists to stop blocking an access route to that gold mine, known as Veladero.

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