Farmers confront riot police at the site of the Letpadaung copper mine near Monywa in northwestern Burma, Monday. Pic: AP.
YANGON, Burma (AP) — An opposition lawmaker says a woman has been shot dead in a crackdown on protesters at a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northwestern Burma.
Khin San Hlaing, a lawmaker from the National League for Democracy party, said the Monday's confrontation occurred as police and Chinese workers erected a fence on land that the villagers claimed as theirs.
She said a 50-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head, though it was not clear if she was shot by police or mining company security personnel.
http://www.information.myanmaronlinecentre.com/fatal-shooting-reported-at-burma-mine-protest/
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