Output lock in the province of Peru after 13 min workers were killed

The Peruvian government has imposed a nightly lock in the province of Pataz, in the last week 13 kidnapped mining workers were killed.

President Dina Boluarte also ordered that mining activities are suspended for one month, while additional police and soldiers are used to the region.

The incident directed the activities of criminal gangs in Pataz in the spotlight.

La Poderosa, the Peruvian company that owns the gold mine, where the men worked, said they were kidnapped on April 26 by “illegal miners who buy criminals”. Your bodies were found on Sunday.

President Boluarte said that the armed forces would take over “full control over La Poderosa Mining Area”.

La Poderosa said in a statement that a total of 39 people with connections to the company of criminal gangs in Pataz, a mining region, were killed more than 800 km north of the capital, Lima.

It added that the state of emergency, which has been in force in the province since February 2024, had little effect.

“Despite the explanation of a state of emergency and the presence of a large police contingent, the spiral of uncontrolled violence in Pataz occurs, which unfortunately was unable to stop the deterioration in the region,” says the declaration of May 2.

The 13 men, whose corpses were found on Sunday, were employed by a subcontractor, R&R, who worked in La Poderosas Mine.

They had been sent to face a group that had attacked and occupied the mine, but was attacked and confiscated when they tried to regain control.

They showed videos that were shared by their kidnappers, which they were bound and naked in a mine shaft.

The film material and the fact that their kidnappers shared it with the relatives to make them paying a ransom caused outrage in Peru.

The discovery of their bodies on Sunday and forensic evidence that indicated that they were empty more than a week before their discovery of shooting points caused another shock.

A prosecutor from the region, Luis Guillermo Bringas, told the local media that the area of ​​”a war against mining pits” was shaken between illegal miners and criminals on the one hand and legal miners on the other.