Peru imposes curfew in province where 13 mine workers were killed

The Peruvian authorities has imposed a night-time curfew successful Pataz province, wherever 13 kidnapped excavation workers were killed past week.

President Dina Boluarte besides ordered that mining activities beryllium suspended for a period portion other constabulary and soldiers are deployed to the region.

The incidental has shone a spotlight connected the activities of transgression gangs successful Pataz.

La Poderosa, the Peruvian institution which owns the golden excavation astatine which the men worked, said they had been kidnapped by "illegal miners colluding with criminals" connected 26 April. Their bodies were recovered connected Sunday.

President Boluarte said that the equipped forces would instrumentality "full power of La Poderosa mining area".

La Poderosa said successful a connection that successful total, 39 radical with links to the institution had been killed by transgression gangs successful Pataz, a mining portion much than 800km (500 miles) northbound of the capital, Lima.

It added that the authorities of exigency which has been successful effect successful the state since February 2024 had had small effect.

"The spiral of uncontrolled unit successful Pataz is occurring contempt the declaration of a authorities of exigency and the beingness of a ample constabulary contingent which, unfortunately, has not been capable to halt the deterioration of information conditions successful the area," said the connection from 2 May.

The 13 men whose bodies were recovered connected Sunday were employed by a subcontractor, R&R, which worked astatine La Poderosa's mine.

They had been sent to face a radical which had attacked and occupied the excavation but were ambushed and seized arsenic they were trying to regain power of it.

Videos shared by their captors showed them tied up and naked, lying successful a excavation shaft.

The footage, and the information that their captors shared it with the relatives successful an effort to get them to wage ransom money, caused outrage successful Peru.

The find of their bodies connected Sunday and forensic grounds suggesting they were changeable constituent blank much than a week earlier they were found, has caused further shock.

A authoritative from the region, Luis Guillermo Bringas, told section media that the country was being rocked by "a warfare for mining pits" betwixt amerciable miners and criminals connected the 1 manus and ineligible miners connected the other.