Bolivia crisis begins easing, air force jet on assistance flight crashes

A day of fragile gains in Bolivia saw major protest roadblocks cleared for the first time in weeks on Sunday, but progress was overshadowed by the crash of a military support flight that killed six people, authorities said.



The country's highways authority revises its tally of ongoing roadblocks to 28 after a series of breakthroughs with protesters, a day after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency to resolve a 50-day social crisis stemming from anti-government blockades that cut off key roads for weeks,

stranded trucks and choked supplies of food, fuel and medicines to many areas.



Earlier on Sunday, Bolivia's Legislative Assembly overwhelmingly approved Paz's decree, which aimed to restore transit and supply essential goods by enabling wider military deployment to clear blockades and prohibiting people from blocking roads and highways.