AFP /
200 police clashed with dozens of Guaymi indigena armed with spears, sticks and stones protesting copper mining on their ancestral lands.
Violence broke-out when police tried to clear the protestors from a bridge on a major highway outside of Panama City. Reportedly several police were injured.
Last week the congress approved a law opening-up the western Ngobe-Bugle reservation to foreign mining projects.
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