A woman crosses a road blockade set by supporters of Bolivian President Evo Morales during a protest in Tiquipaya, Bolivia. Morales struggled to assert control over a badly fractured nation on Sunday.

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LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales struggled to assert control over a badly fractured Bolivia on Sunday as protesters set fire to a town hall and blocked highways in opposition-controlled provinces, impeding fuel and food distribution.

At least 30 people have been killed in the poor Andean nation this week, Interior Minister Alfredo Rada said.

All the deaths occurred in Pando province, where Mora-les declared martial law on Friday, dispatching troops and accusing government foes of killing his supporters.

Pando's security chief, Alberto Murakami, told The Associated Press by telephone that 15 people had died and 55 were injured.

Presidency Minister Juan Ramon Quintana told local radio Red Erbol that authorities had arrested Pando Gov. Leopoldo Fernandez "for violating the constitution and generating the bloody killings of the peasants." Morales has accused Fernandez of using Peruvian and Brazilian "assassins" against Morales supporters.

But Pando officials insisted Fernandez was still free, and Quintana later clarified on Red Erbol that although the governor "should be put in jail for blatant crimes," he had not been detained.

Fernandez has denied having anything to do with the violence, saying it was not an ambush but rather an armed clash between rival groups.

The La Paz newspaper La Razon quoted the country's highways chief as saying blockades had halted transit on major roadways in the opposition-governed eastern provinces of Tarija, Beni and Santa Cruz. The AP could not immediately confirm the report.

The gravest challenge to Morales in his nearly three-year-old tenure as Bolivia's first indigenous president stems from his struggle with the four eastern lowland provinces where Bolivia's natural-gas riches are concentrated and where his government has essentially lost control.

The provinces are seeking greater autonomy from Morales' leftist government and are insisting he cancel a Dec. 7 referendum on a new constitution that would help him centralize power, run for a second consecutive term and transfer fallow terrain to landless peasants.

Morales says the new charter is needed to empower Bolivia's indigenous majority.