BRASILIA: Brazilian authorities burned more than 60 river-dredging boats in a crackdown on wildcat miners drawn to a major Amazon tributary by rumors of a gold find, the government and Greenpeace said on Sunday (Monday in Manila).
Justice Minister Anderson Torres said 69 vessels were destroyed on Saturday and he published photos and video of them on fire on the banks of the Madeira River.
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