![]() Sharon Stone's brother dead at 57: Patrick Stone 'died after sudden cardiac arrest due to heart disease' - following tragic death of his son River Love Island: 'It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission!' The girls vow to crack on with the hunky new boys in Casa Amorįrom terrifying T-Rexs to ravenous raptors - how some very lifelike dinosaurs are set to be a HUGE TV hit. 'This is torture': Love Island boys feel the frustration as they overhear girls having a party at Casa Amor 'She's already gone!': Love Island fans share shock as Tanya invites Casa Amor boy Martin into her bed on the FIRST night. The community also believes they have been suffering from oil contamination from previous spills, and the government is not adequately checking water safety. They say the 50-year-old pipes are no longer fit for purpose and fear future spills are inevitable. The indigenous people use the river for drinking water, fishing and cleaning.Ī week after the spill, the community received food and water supplies, which they said only lasted two days.Ī previous spill in 2014 already damaged relations between the locals and the state. Petroperu mobilised an emergency response team on the day of the spill and later reported the pipeline was intentionally cut.īut since then, locals say state officials have failed to provide adequate help for their ravaged communities. The crisis led to a lack of water in the community and fishing became impossible in the remote region. 'All the communities that are downstream, called San Francisco, San Antonio, Esperanza, San Pedro and so on up to Nauta were affected.' On September 16, a state-run Petroperu pipeline ruptured, leaking oil into the Cuninico ravine which contaminated the river downstream.Ĭhief Galo Vásquez said: 'El Cuninico is at the mouth of the ravine that flows into the waters of the Marañón River. More and more people were arriving on the banks with machetes.' ![]() 'They somehow boarded the boat, they took the batteries from the boat. Speaking to The Mirror, Ms Wiltshire, from Cardigan, Wales, said: 'We were coming into this village and we were suddenly surrounded by several boats with men with sharpened stakes and machetes. The group, reportedly including two pregnant woman, a one-month-old baby and a diabetic, were travelling on river boats along with travellers from France, Spain and Switzerland when they were taken hostage on the Cuninico river.Ī leader of the indigenous group said they wanted to 'catch the government's attention' after not getting enough state help over an oil spill in September.īut after they were released on Friday at 2.30pm local time, retired Charlotte Wiltshire, 54, has since spoken out about the 'grim' conditions they faced. A British tourist who was among more than 100 people taken hostage by a machete-wielding indigenous group in Peru has revealed the 'grim' conditions they endured prior to being released.Īround 120 tourists including Britons and Americans had been detained by the local group for 24 hours in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest in Peru. ![]()
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