Around 1,600 tourists have been evacuated from a train station near the Inca city Machu Picchu in Peru, after a local protest escalated into clashes with police.
Around 4,500 tourists visit Machu Picchu daily, according to the tourist department.
The visitors travel approximately eleven miles by train from the city of Cusco to the train station Aguas Calientes and then take the bus the rest of the way.
On Monday, demonstrators placed objects on the train tracks to demand that their interests be represented in a bidding process for a new bus operator. 14 police officers are reported to have been injured in clashes with demonstrators.
