A group of Guatemalan women is seeking millions from a Canadian mining company after claiming they were assaulted and gang-raped by security and police forces near the company’s operations in the Central American country.

The 11 women are seeking $55 million in damages after claiming they were assaulted in January 2007 near an HMI Nickel site during armed evictions of local residents in El Estor, Guatemala. HMI Nickel is a subsidiary group of Toronto-based HudBay Minerals and both companies are named in the lawsuit.

Report from the Vancouver Sun