One man was killed and more than 20 people were injured in armed clashes last week between herders and ninja miners in Darvi soum in Gobi-Altai. The herders were resisting the efforts of around 100 miners to dig for gold in pasture land. The clashes lasted for more than an hour. The soum administration had earlier warned the ninjas to stay away, but they started digging near Elstiin Valley and enraged the herders. The provincial police have arrested 30 people and are investigating the events.
Reports say the trouble broke out when a group of ninjas began digging for gold. Local herders protested but they were outnumbered and finally one of them opened fire, fatally hitting a 30-year-old ninja in the head. Herders are concerned at the loss to pasture land but the ninjas refused to listen to their pleas, instead shouting, “What else can we do? If we don’t dig, we die of hunger.”
Source: News.mn
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