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13 workers kidnapped from Peruvian gold mine are found dead
From the Associated Press
Sunday, May 4, 2025
LIMA, Peru -- The bodies of 13 security guards kidnapped from a major Peruvian gold mine just over a week ago were found today, Peru's Interior Ministry said, their deaths coming as violence escalates in the Andean nation's crucial mining industry.
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The gold mine, La Poderosa, said that a search-and-rescue team recovered the staff members' remains in the mine today. The company blamed their abduction on informal miners allegedly linked to criminal gangs that ambushed the gold mine on April 26.
Peru's Interior Ministry said it had deployed special police forces to "locate and capture those responsible for these heinous crimes." ...
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