The bodies of 13 hijacked security guards of a large Peruvian gold mine met Sunday on Sunday, said the mining company.
The Peruvian company, La Poderosa, said that a search and rescue team had recovered the remains of staff members on Sunday. He blamed his kidnapping to informal miners allegedly linked to criminal gangs that amusted the gold mine on April 26.
The Powerful, a private company based in the capital of Lima in Peru, said that the criminal groups that fight for the control of the mine in the remote city of Pataz in the remote northwest of Peru have killed 39 of the company’s workers since the Latin began starting the Latin starting.
“The spiral of uncontrolled violence in Pataz is despite the declaration of an emergency state and the presence of a large police contingent that, unfortunately, has not been able to stop the deterioration of security conditions in the area,” mining. “Mining.
In a particularly shameless incident in December 2023, illegal miners attacked the same powerful mine with explosives, killing nine people and wounding 15. The powerful sent more security guards in Response to the series of attacks.
In the city of Trujillo, to the west of Pataz, some of the relatives of the victims waited for the bodies to be transferred to the morue there.
“We want justice, that this not only stops here,” said AFP Abraham Domínguez, whose son Alexander was found dead inside the mine, AFP reported.
Peruvian police did not respond immediately to comments requests.
The Ministry of Interior of Peru said it had deployed special police forces to “locate and capture those responsible for these atrocious crimes.” He gave no more details about the attack or his perpetrators.
Mining is a key economic driver for the Andean nation, one of the largest gold producers in Latin America.
A great gold and copper supplier for the world, Peru is unique by allowing informal miners to operate with some protections provided they plan to legalize their operations. But illegal mining quickly retired to a fixed industry as metals became increasingly lucrative, new mining techniques emerged and the government fought to set up an answer.
With much of Peru inhaled in a wave of crime that led the government to Declare an emergency state last monthExtortion reports of artisanal miners and entrepreneurs in the mining area of the north of the country have increased in recent months.