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70 police, general taken hostage in Peru mining protest

Jun 17, 2008, 12:38 GMT

Lima - Demonstrators in southern Peru have taken about 70 police officers and a police general hostage and barricaded themselves in a cathedral in the city of Moquegua in their fight for a greater share of mining royalties. The officers were dispatched Monday to clear bridges that protesters have blocked since Thursday between the Moquegua and Tacna regions, but they were overpowered by thousands of demonstrators and taken prisoner. At least 17 people were injured, national media reported. The protesters in Moquegua, about 1,150 kilometres south of Lima, were protesting a new rate of distribution of the royalties from a nearby copper mine operated by Mexico's Southern mining company. In 2005, Moquegua received about 117.5 million dollars and Tacna about 107 million dollars from the mine, but the mode of calculation was changed, and now Tacna is to receive 245 million dollars and Moquegua 80 million dollars.

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