LIMA (Reuters) - Fourteen people died in an armed dispute between small-scale miners in a remote gold-mining town in southern Peru, authorities said Wednesday.
The violence was the latest incidence of unrest in Peru's increasingly volatile mining sector, following a recent fire allegedly set by wildcat copper miners at Southern Copper Corp's Los Chancas project.
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