Peru´s government declared a 30-day state of emergency on Monday night after two people were killed and dozens of police officers injured in violent anti-mining protests against Swiss based-Xstrata near Cuzco, in south eastern Peru.
The protesters, reports local paper El Comercio, accuse the Tintaya copper mine, owned by world´s fourth-largest copper producer Xstrata, of polluting local water supplies and killing farm animals.
Peru´s president of the cabinet, Oscar Valdés, said in an official statement the government was urgently seeking to restore dialogue.
“These protesters are very radical and opposed to dialogue and so to ensure safety we are declaring a state of emergency,” he said.
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