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		</div><p>At least three people were shot and killed and 17 wounded in a clash between police and highlands farmers protesting against a US$7.4bn Chinese-owned copper mining project in Peru.</p>
<p>Police apparently opened fire on the protesters when they entered part of the Las Bambas mine where the plant that separates copper ore from rock is under construction.</p>
<p>The local health director, Jose Soplopuco, told The Associated Press that two men died en route to the regional capital of Cuzco and one at the local health clinic.</p>
<p>He said ambulances could not reach Challhuahuacho, the town of about 10,000 residents where the clinic is located, because police had shot at a vehicle carrying doctors.</p>
<p>Percy Jeronimo, the oral surgeon running the emergency room, said three of the wounded were in critical condition.</p>
<p>The Las Bambas project is owned by a consortium led by Chinese state giant China Minmetals. It is scheduled to begin production in 2016 and produce 400,000 metric tons of copper the following year.</p>
<p>President Ollanta Humala appealed to protest leaders for calm. He called Las Bambas Peru’s biggest mining project on Monday.</p>
<p>Peru is the world’s third biggest copper producer and mining accounts for about 60% of its export earnings.</p>
<p>But resistance by local farmers has frustrated and delayed major projects across the rugged Andean nation.</p>
<p>Six people have been killed so far this year in anti-mining protests, including a police officer whose skull was fractured during May protests against a Mexican-owned copper mining project.</p>
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