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Dan Collyns in Lima

Gold mining suspended in Peru’s north after 13 miners killed

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Peruvian president Dina Boluarte in Lima, Peru, in January 2025. Photograph: Guadalupe Pardo/AP

Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, has suspended gold mining and announced a 12-hour curfew in Pataz, in the northern region, after criminals kidnapped and killed 13 gold mine workers.

A Peruvian gold mining company La Poderosa said on Sunday that the bodies of 13 contract workers from a local firm had been found by police inside one of the mine’s tunnels.

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