A specialized team of 40 agents of the National Police of Peru (PNP) was sent to the region of Freedom To carry out rescue and search for the 13 workers kidnapped in a sinkhole of the R&R mining company. The workers remain unknown since last April 25, when it is presumed that an armed group keeps them retained.
He PNP General Guillermo Llerena PortalChief of the La Libertad Police Regioninformed that the agents belong to the National Directorate of Special Operations (Dinoes) and that they are working together with the rescue personnel of the powerful mining company, which is also involved in the fact, since the company R&R provides services to the company in the area of Pataz.
According to the officer, the team has been investigating various locations indicated by the relatives of the workers, who have been collaborating in the search. “There is currently a team of 40 divided men In two groups performing rescue work. We are from the day before yesterday with this work; But the information is not exact. However, we are in full rescue work. There are personnel doing a research job at the point and at any time there will be results, ”said General Llerena.
While authorities intensify their efforts, relatives of the kidnapped They have expressed their despair in the absence of clear responses about the state of workers. For several days, relatives made Plantones in the Plaza de Armas de Trujillodemanding greater support from local and regional authorities. “To rent planes to take the police, we need financial support, it is a very big spending,” said Irma Valeriano, aunt of one of the victims.
The outrage has also been directed towards the companies involved. Family members indicate that they were not informed by the empresa R&R nor for the powerful mining company about kidnapping, but they found out for a friend of the victims.
“We have been told that they had to file the complaint to Huamachuco. We have not wanted to accept the complaint here (…) I had 6 months working in Pataz. (…) Do not abandon the boys. Find them please. We do not know if they are alive, ”he added for local media.
Family members denounce that they have no news of the victims and do not know their status. Leonel Pérez Chuquipoma, Nilver’s brother Joel Pérez Chuquipoma (24), one of the kidnapped workersoriginally from the San Felipe district, in Jaén, Cajamarca, said that it does not know in what conditions they are, according to the portal News in Cusco In social networks.
“From Friday we know nothing about my brother. He only told us that he was going to work and then rested for a few days with us. But he never communicated again. They tell us that they have it withholding, that they have no food, that it is not known how they are,” he said.
As reported Successful newswho would be behind the kidnapping of the miners would be a criminal known as ‘knife’, and would be retained in a mine that belongs to someone known as ‘Galindo’.
“Those who have our boys are a nicknamer ‘Knife‘And they have them in the mine of one’Galindo‘. The criminals have broken into the facilities and have it to people. We are negotiating, but criminals do not want. (…) That the police have knowledge of this and will rescue them. They have entered the mine and there are 13 of our boys. (…) We are not with our arms crossed, ”said a co -worker of the kidnapped workers.
