Fighting Dynamite with Dynamite

They play rough in Bolivia:

HUANUNI, Bolivia — The Bolivian government sent in hundreds of police Friday to try to quell a deadly clash between rival bands of miners who hurled dynamite and homemade explosives at each other in a battle over one of South America's richest tin mines.

At least 11 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded since the fighting broke out Thursday between independent miners' cooperatives allied with President Evo Morales and miners employed by Bolivia's state mining company.

A truce on Thursday night lasted long enough for both sides to bury their dead.

At dawn on Friday, hostilities again broke out on the barren slopes of Posokoni Mountain, which looms over this small mining town 180 miles south of the capital of La Paz.

Miners from both sides threw dynamite and homemade explosives at each other from the mountain ridges, sometimes separated by no more than 50 feet. The miners, some only in their teens, carried sticks of dynamite in backpacks and tucked in their belts.

Sounds to me like they've got some budding young suicide bomber talent in that pool of miners. Throw a few virgins into the mix, and watch out!