Up to eight protesters have been reported killed after Bolivia's government sent thousands of troops backed by tanks to quell increasingly violent protests against President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
Witnesses told local radio on Sunday that eight protesters were killed during pitched battles with troops clearing roadblocks choking food and gasoline supplies to the capital in and around the poor industrial suburb of El Alto, outside La Paz.
The government, which has played down death tolls in recent protests, said four civilians and one soldier were killed and that around 30 others were injured.
Sunday's clashes raise the toll to 19 dead and dozens injured during a month-long wave of protests against Sanchez de Lozada's free market policies and failure to tackle crushing poverty in South America's poorest nation.
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