Quito  - Some 1,000 police officers evicted 200 indigenous people from a 70-hectare lot they had illegally occupied for more than a year, Ecuadorian media reported Thursday.

The members of the Kichwa, Shuar and Hoaorani communities had lived on the land in the Amazonian town of Puyo, some 222 kilometres from Quito, since April 14, 2007.

Force was used to remove them after an initial verbal request that the indigenous people leave the site failed to achieve the intended results. Officers brought down the walls of precarious houses and pulled people out of their homes.

According to media reports, one civilian was wounded by a gunshot during the operation.

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Prague  - The Czech police have charged two civil engineers in the case of a train crash that last week killed seven and injured more than 60 passengers, police said Friday.

On August 8, a packed international express train rammed into a road bridge in the north-eastern Czech Republic that had collapsed on the tracks seconds before.

The overpass had been under reconstruction.

The men, both aged over 50, were responsible for safety during the work on the bridge, police said.

Prague  - The Czech police detained a 19-year-old German who allegedly raised his arm in a Nazi salute at a campsite near the city of Brno Friday, CTK news agency reported.

The man had been staying at the site during Brno's motorcycle races.

The police detained him on a lead from reporters, who noticed Thursday that he repeatedly made the salute while passing a tent fitted with a Nazi-era flag.

The suspect faces up to three years in prison for hate crime.

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The rate of inflation has increased to 12.01 percent. It is the highest rate in past 13 years. The inflation rate was 11.98 per cent in the last week. The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rate is increased due to increase in the prices of as pulses, spices, eggs, fish and meat and some dairy products.

Although the rate of steel is not increased by steel companies yet the increase in the prices of cement contributed in the rise of inflation rate.