Armed attackers rob tourists on a boat tour in the Amazon

Armed attackers rob tourists on a boat tour in the Amazon
armed men have a tourist boat in
The Spanish Tikotoker Elisabet de la Almudena, who has more than 235,000 followers on the platform, described her experience in a 4.5-minute video as the "worst day of her life". According to her report, she was part of a group of 14 people, among them her parents and her 6-year-old daughter, who undertook a full-day boat tour from the city of Iquitos, a popular starting point to explore the rainforest. "We had booked a family tour, a tour tour - and ultimately ended as kidnapped," she said. Four men armed with pistols and a machine gun climbed the boat and drove deep into the forest, where they took the entire property of the passengers and even took the engine of the boat. "You asked us to withdraw money from our accounts and to transfer them to one of their accounts, otherwise they would not release us," added de la Almudena. "I would not wish anyone." The passengers then took pieces of wood from the boat and rowed along the river, where they met a family in another boat that helped them to be safe. de la Almudena claimed that the Toursirma Canopy Tours Iquitos had not installed a GPS tracker on the boat, had no insurance and no security precautions, although she had later been informed that such incidents had already occurred in the region. "We were completely abandoned by the people who should be responsible for our well -being," she said. Canopy Tours Iquitos reacted to the incident that occurred on May 14th and described him as an unforeseen event that was outside of their control and "immediately reported to the authorities". The company said: "We immediately activated our emergency protocols, offered our help of the group concerned and actively work with the investigation." The company also announced that it would strengthen the security measures, including the introduction of GPS monitoring, closer cooperation with the police and additional training for personnel. The shocking experiences of a tourist
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"Thefts, car theft, robberies, attacks and other violent offenses often even happen even in daylight and in front of many witnesses. kidnapping are rare, but occur," it said.
CNN asked Canopy Tours Iquitos, the Peruvian national police and the Spanish embassy in Peru for a comment.