INQUIRER.net: At least 4 wounded in Peru anti-mining clash

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At least 4 wounded in Peru anti-mining clash Jan 26th 2013, 05:04 LIMA, Peru — At least four people were wounded Friday when police turned back several hundred peasants who were trying to enter a Canadian-owned copper mine where drilling began last month. A local doctor told The Associated Press by phone that at least a dozen were wounded in the clash in the temperate Quechua-speaking highlands of Peru's northern state of Lambayeque. The doctor said one protester, 57, was shot in the back. The doctor spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety. Hermogenes Tantarico, the wounded man's son, said his father "received a bullet in the back and a lot of shotgun pellets in the legs and elsewhere that left him unconscious." Regiona... Keep on reading: At least 4 wounded in Peru anti-mining clash Media files: peru-map.jpg (image/jpeg)

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