One captive said the hostage-takers were demanding 'medical help and clean water and food' after an oil spill in the area 'contaminated the wells and river.'
A photo posted online by Angela Ramirez on November 3, 2022, shows a group of tourists, including Ramirez, being held on a boat in Peru's Amazon region by an Indigenous group protesting what they say is the government's failure to help after an oil spill.A group of Indigenous people in Peru's Amazon region has taken dozens of foreign and Peruvian tourists hostage as they made their way through the area on river tour boat.
"The villagers are peaceful toward us but they did take over the boat with spears and clubs," Haldeman said in the statement."No one had guns. We were parked near an island last night and the villagers took the battery from the boat motor. The captain and drivers are being held in a village jail. The village wants to keep the big boat for ransom. We might get some small rescue boats. There is new action every hour.
"The sooner they are heard, the sooner they will let us go," said Ramirez in the online post."Help me help them be heard." Haldeman is a tour guide, but was not running the tour that was detained. Notorangelo said her husband and the other tourists were supposed to have ended their boat ride at noon on Thursday and then ridden bikes to the nearby town of Iquitos. She said her husband has an airline ticket to leave Peru on Tuesday, and hopes he and the other hostages will be released in time for him to make the flight.
Local media indicated no public comment from the Peruvian government or police on the incident, which took place on a tributary of the Maranon River.
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