Posted on 10/06/2006 2:53:12 PM PDT by rawhide
The Bolivian government sent in hundreds of police Friday to try to quell a deadly clash between rival bands of miners who hurled dynamite and homemade explosives at each other in a battle over one of South America's richest tin mines.
At least 11 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded since the fighting broke out Thursday between independent miners' cooperatives allied with President Evo Morales and miners employed by Bolivia's state mining company.
A truce on Thursday night lasted long enough for both sides to bury their dead.
At dawn on Friday, hostilities again broke out on the barren slopes of Posokoni Mountain, which looms over this small mining town 180 miles south of the capital of La Paz.
Miners from both sides threw dynamite and homemade explosives at each other from the mountain ridges, sometimes separated by no more than 50 feet. The miners, some only in their teens, carried sticks of dynamite in backpacks and tucked in their belts.
In town, residents held a prayer vigil in the local church for the violence to end. Blood stains and holes from explosives littered a town soccer field where fighting took place Thursday.
Friday morning, members of the miners' cooperative rolled three tires packed with explosives down the side of the mountain toward positions held by state miners, causing an enormous explosion.--snip--
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MUCHO MORE FUN-O THAN BOTTLE ROCKETS, imho......
In a dynamite throwing contest, it is best to be uphill.
Good grief, they'd make good islamofascist terrorists.
Now why did no one think of this for one of those post apocoplyptic Mad Max type movies?
Dynamite War!
Here in the South, people fish with dynamite. At least that's what I am told. :-)
This is the thing I posted about on the other thread - it's very complicated, the groups have various allegiances.
"members of the miners' cooperative rolled three tires packed with explosives down the side of the mountain toward positions held by state miners, causing an enormous explosion."
Great improvision.
OK, I'll be the first.
Never bring a knife to a dynamite fight.
It just doesn't flow, but gotta say it anyway.
Gee, when I had too many adult beverages in Ensenada, we had a M-80 fight on the beach. This sounds more hugh and series!
Never bring wet matches to a TNT fight, LOL!
D'Oh! Pinging you to Post #12. ;)
Deport Pedro!
Man alive! That is really messed up, that they're passing explosives back and forth and killing each other just over who gets to work in that mine.
'with enough explosive you can overcome anything life throws at you'
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