LIMA (Reuters) - A farmer in Peru was killed on Friday during rallies in a remote Andean town against MMG Ltd's $10-billion Las Bambas copper mine, the first protester to die in clashes over mining in President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's new government.
Unrest erupted in the highland region of Apurimac as police tried to clear townsfolk from a road they had been blocking for nearly a week, leaving dead a 42-year-old man, said Artemio Solano, a representative of the ombudsman's office.
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