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At least one killed as clashes over gas export plans continue

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• published: 21 Jul 2015
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SHOTLIST El Alto 1. Wide of burning tyre, soldiers in the background, road covered with rocks 2. Military police advancing on protesters, rocks on the street 3. Police shooting tear gas 4. Protesters running, police on bikes 5. Soldier carrying Bolivian flag 6. Soldiers with civilian on the ground 7. Injured civilian on the ground 8. Helicopter flying overhead 9. Body of dead civilian 10. Body of dead civilian being removed in stretcher 11. Military police on bikes 12. Protesters running La Paz 13. Ambulance driving to hospital with travelling to door opening and injured men inside 14. Injured men inside ambulance 15. Injured men getting out of ambulance 16. Close up of injured arm 17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Voxpop injured man: "They were shooting at close range. There was another man who was shot in the head and I think he died on the way here." 18. Injured coming out of ambulance in a stretcher 19. Injured inside hospital 20. Wide of teachers demonstration 21. Demonstrators walking past camera 22. Close up of woman biting saucepan 23. Woman with saucepan 24. More of demonstration 25. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vilma Plata , leader of Teacher's Union: "We want to say that we are with the Bolivian people and we are united in the defence of the gas for the Bolivians. If this government cannot guarantee our basic necessities, the workers of Bolivia are ready to send out Goni (Bolivian President Louzada) and his people " 26. Woman with saucepan 27. Wide of demonstration with police in the foreground STORYLINE Striking Bolivian miners clashed with riot troops on Thursday as a nationwide strike over a government plan to export natural gas through neighbouring Chile intensified. At least one person was killed and six others injured, authorities said. The riots started in the city of El Alto, some 12 kilometres (seven miles) north of La Paz, when some 500 miners marched into the city determined to reach the capital. Protesting miners hurled lit sticks of dynamite at police. One miner died, apparently when a stick of dynamite he was trying to throw exploded in his hand, police said. Police acted fast to stop the march from going any further. Injured who reached the hospital in La Paz suffered from bullet wounds and there were also reports of grenade explosions. Peasants, shop owners and public school teachers have all joined the protests, many manning road blockades in and around many of Bolivia's main cities. Highway travel has idled in most parts of the country. In the capital, teachers marched on Thursday to show their support to the movement that is demanding that the president stops selling Bolivian natural gas or step down from office. The government plan calls for piping natural gas from mammoth gas fields in southern Bolivia to the Pacific coast for export to the United States and Mexico. It estimates the export of gas would earn South America's poorest nation up to one and a half (b) billion US dollars. But the movement opposed to the sale of gas say the government is making to many concessions to multi-national corporate organisations which will result in ordinary people not receiving any benefit from the export. The plan to export the gas to the US and Mexico via Chile is a joint project in association with a consortium made of Repsol YPF of Spain, British Gas and British Petroleum, with a five (b) billion US dollar investment. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a83ea93fb1c700230d3df3a9fadfe497 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork