ET: BISHKEK: Parts of Kyrgyzstan were under curfew Saturday after clashes between security forces and protesters who want a Canadian-owned gold mine nationalised led the president to declare a state of emergency.
President Almazbek Atambayev signed the declaration Friday for the Dzheti-Ogyzsky district of the northern Issyk Kul region, where the protesters have converged on the mine.
The violence broke out after the arrests of dozens of demonstrators cut off power to the Kumtor mine, owned by the Canadian mining group Centerra Gold.
Prosecutors said 92 people were arrested when security forces moved in to disperse the protest over the mine, retake control of an electrical substation and dismantle the activists’ camp.
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