REUTERS/
A clash with police and illegal gold miners over the army's seizure of illegal dredges in the Amazon turned violent, leaving one dead and at least 14 injured in remote Madre de Dios.
Recently some 1,000 police and soldiers began to destroy wildcat mining equipment there.
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