More than ten thousand people, including 30 foreigners, have been trapped behind blockades set up on July 29 by group of protestors seeking Government attention to their demands in Potosi, a mountainous city in Bolivia.

Protestor's demands include the re-opening of the local mines, ending of the border dispute with the neighboring province, Oruro and expansion of the local airport.

As the Bolivian Government agreed to meet some of their demands, they ended their strike on Monday.

As the strike started, as many as 100 foreigners left the city immediately, but 31 of them being not so lucky got entrapped, out of which 15 are French, 5 are British nationals, 2 belong to Japan, 6 are Spanish, 1 is an Australian and Argentinean, respectively while the remaining one is from Israel.

In the beginning, the protestors refused to provide any medical aid to the hostages, but later allowed one French woman along with two other French citizens to go.

During the 19 days strike, all transportation links road, rail and air to the city were blocked. Further, post the ending of the strike, the 11 French nationals along with the 2 Brits will be freed by Tuesday.

Celestino Condori, the leader of the strike said, "We gave instructions for the road blocks and hunger strikes to be lifted".

Antoine Grassin, the French Ambassador in La Paz cautioned the Bolivian Government about the harmful effects on country's tourism industry, if the unrest stretched for long.