Worker Shot Dead as Copper Protest at Chile’s Codelco Sours
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A worker was shot dead in clashes with Chile’s police as a protest by contractors working with Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, escalates.
Nelson Quichillao Lopez died early Friday amid protests outside El Salvador, an operation of state-owned Codelco in northern Chile, the labor union, the Confederacion de Trabajadores del Cobre, said in a statement on its website. A second person was hospitalized after sustaining injuries in the incident, Codelco said.