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Tourists on Peru riverboat freed after pollution protest

Por: ABC News World November 05, 2022

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LIMA, Peru -- An Indigenous leader in Peru's region said Friday that his community had released 98 riverboat passengers — 23 of them foreign tourists — who had been detained overnight as a protest to demand government attention to complaints of oil pollution.Wadson Trujillo said the passengers, including citizens of Germany, Great Britain, Spain and France as well as Peru, set off along the Maranon River at 1:45 p.m. local time aboard... + full article



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