A group of 70 people held for 30 hours by indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon were released on Sunday in an event similar to another recorded over the weekend to protest a leak, local media reported on Monday (7). oil in this region

“We were released at 3:10 PM on Sunday” (17:10 GMT), Luis Otazu, one of the Peruvian passengers held by indigenous people belonging to the Kukuma ethnic group on the boat sailing along the Marañón River in northwest Peru, told RPP radio.

“We talked to Apus (indigenous leaders), they realized that holding us back is not their best fight. Their best fight is to give us the corresponding freedom,” Otazu said.

The ship sailed for Iquitos, the capital of the Loreto region, where it will arrive at dusk this Monday. The ship departed from Yurimaguas on Saturday.

This new incident comes shortly after another Kukama Cuninico ethnic group released more than a hundred foreign and Peruvian tourists detained on Friday in protest at government inaction after the same oil spill in September polluted a river near the reserve where they lived.