ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: In Peru, government leaders there are meeting to decide what to do about a declared military uprising in a mining town near the border of Chile. A military commander announced the revolt against President Alberto Fujimori's government on Sunday. Claudia Cisneros joins us by phone from Lima with the very latest. Claudia, what do you have for us?</s>CLAUDIA CISNEROS, GLOBAL NETWORK CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Andria. Calm seems to have returned to mining town of Toquepala after a middle-ranking military commander and at least 50 soldiers attempted an uprising Sunday morning, taking over the civilian town located some 700 miles south of the capital, Lima. Although reports from the area said citizens were taken hostages in town, no violence or confrontation were reported. The rebel commander, Ollanta Humalla Tasso, was said to have left the mining town with his convoy some four hours ago, heading toward the</s>HALL: We have reports that there are between 60 to 100 soldiers backing the commander in question. Do you have any indication of how many soldiers are with him?</s>CISNEROS: Well, army has reported there are only 49 soldiers under Humalla Tasso's command. Citizens in the area have reportedly said there were between 50 and 60 soldiers, and as far as we have been able to confirm, there have been no reports of other military units supporting the rebel commander and his soldiers, not in Lima that is about 700 miles from Toquepala, not in the area around Toquepala itself -- Andria.</s>HALL: Claudia Cisneros live from Lima. Thank you, Claudia.
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