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Bolivian deputy interior minister kidnapped, killed by protesting miners
Reports emanating from Bolivia indicates that the country’s deputy interior minister, Rodolfo Illanes, was reportedly beaten to death after being kidnapped by miners.
“All the indications are that our deputy minister Rodolfo Illanes has been brutally and cowardly assassinated,” Carlos Romero, the Minister of Government, said late on Thursday in comments quoted by the Reuters news agency.
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Continuing, Romero said the 56-year-old had gone to talk to protesters earlier on Thursday in Panduro, around 160km from the capital, La Paz, but was intercepted and kidnapped by striking miners who beat him to death.
Romero also added that the government was trying to recover his body after the protests by the miners went violent this week when two workers were killed on Wednesday after shots were fired by police.
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