Bolivia's president slams military-style attack on coca eradication team

Bolivia's president slams military-style attack on coca eradication team
Oct 23,2013

LA PAZ, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday denounced a military-style attack on a government coca plant eradication team, saying it was the work of foreign drug traffickers.

Saturday's ambush in the area of Apolo, some 442 km north of the capital La Paz, resembled a "military plan," he told a press conference in the southern town of Tarija.

Preliminary investigation points to the presence of foreign drug traffickers, who used local leaders, he said.

The government said three soldiers and a doctor were killed in the ambush, 14 people were shot and 15 were hurt with machetes and sticks.

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