Protesters armed with sticks and dynamite clashed with police and troops on Saturday as they evicted them from two natural gas facilities in south-eastern Bolivia, the interior minister said.
About 200 demonstrators stormed into the plants on Friday to protest the government's nationalisation of the energy industry, which they say has not gone far enough. The protest cut gas supplies to the domestic market, but not exports. "The police and the army have seized control of the facilities operated by Transredes and Bolivian Hydocarbons Logistics Company," Interior Minister Alfredo Rada said in the administrative capital, La Paz.
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