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The Peruvian government imposed at night in Pataz province, where 13 abducted workers from Mina were killed last week last week.
President Dina Bolurt also ordered the mining activities to be stopped for a month while the additional police and soldiers were located in the region.
The incident has penetrated the light of the activities of criminal gangs in Pataz.
La Poderosa, the Peruvian company, which owns the gold mine in which the men worked, said they were abducted by “illegal miners who encounter criminals” on April 26th. Their bodies were found on Sunday.
President Bolurta said the armed forces will take “complete control of the La Poderosa mining area”.
La Poderosa said in a statement that a total of 39 people with ties to the company were killed by criminal gangs in Pataz, a mining region more than 800 km (500 miles) north of the capital, Lima.
He added that the extraordinary condition that has been in force in the province since February 2024 has had little effect.
“The spiral of uncontrolled violence in Pataz is happening despite the statement of emergency and the presence of a large police contingent, which unfortunately failed to stop the deterioration of security conditions in the area,” the May 2 said.
The 13 men whose bodies were found on Sunday were hired by a subcontractor, R&R, who worked at La Poderosa mine.
They were sent to face a group that attacked and occupied the mine, but were planted and seized as they tried to regain control of it.
The videos shared by their abductors showed them tied and naked, lying in a mining shaft.
The staff and the fact that their abductors shared him with relatives in an attempt to make them pay money from ransom have caused outrage in Peru.
The opening of their bodies on Sunday and forensic evidence, which suggest they were shot empty more than a week before they were found, caused additional shock.
A prosecutor from the region, Luis Guillermo Grang, told the local media that the area was shaken by “War of Mines” between illegal miners and criminals, on the one hand, and legal miners on the other.