Colombia's national police on Friday lifted protests and road blocks that disrupted movement and supplies of food and medicine in a dozen rural municipalities located in the Andean country's Antioquia and Cordoba provinces, the police said in a statement.
Small-, medium- and large-scale gold miners had protested the destruction earlier this month of nine "dragons" - floating machines that suck up silt and mud from rivers in search of alluvial gold.
The machines were damaging the environment and endangering the lives of people living in the region, the government said, adding that road blocks set up by protesting miners led to shortages of food and medical supplies, such as oxygen tanks.
