“After talking with the APUs of the communities of Cuninico, our request for the release of the other people who remained in the boats held in protest of the contamination after the oil spill in the Marañón River was accepted,” the Peruvian Ombudsman’s Office tweeted.
Seventy passengers, nationals of the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, France and Switzerland, were detained after travelling in river boats.
Among them was a one-month-old baby, other people with disabilities and pregnant women.
Sky News understands that the incident has now been resolved and that British citizens have been boarded.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said: “We are offering a very small number of British citizens in Peru and are in contact with Peruvian authorities. “
The alarm was reportedly raised through one of the foreigners on social media.
“The faster they are heard, the faster they will let us go. Help me share, we are fine physically. Help me make your voices heard,” he wrote on Facebook.
One tourist, Angela Ramirez, told RPP in a telephone interview that the organization had been fed several times.
According to press reports, the number of detainees ranges from 70 to 300.
The protesters, from the Urarinas district of the northern province of Loreto, say two young men and a woman died in the domain due to oil spills from a 40-year-old pipeline in the Cuninico River.
Community members told the media they planned to hold tourists for six to eight days.
Officials traveled to the region to the dispute.
The pipeline, which carries crude oil from the Amazon region to the northwestern town of Piura, has been the subject of several oil spills in recent years.
Communities on the river have already blocked boats on the river in protest.
The oil spill of about 2,500 barrels in the Cuninico River reportedly occurred on September 16.
The 500-mile pipeline belongs to Petroperú, a state-owned oil company, which said at the time that the spill was the result of “intentional” damage.
The local government has not yet made an official statement.
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