La Paz, April 4, 2025 (AFP) - Baby among five killed in Bolivia gold mining dispute

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2025-04-04

Five people, including a baby, were killed in an explosion Thursday at a mining camp in western Bolivia where rival cooperatives have been fighting over a gold seam, the interior ministry said. The blast occurred in the early morning in Sorata, 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of the capital La Paz, in a three-story building that housed gold mining equipment and machinery. Three men, one woman, and a one-year-old child were killed in the attack, a......

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