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The Guardian - AU
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Dan Collyns in Lima

FOUND: Spanish tourists robbed by armed river pirates in peruvian amazon - You Need To See This

Boats docked at a tributary of the Amazon River in Iquitos, Peru.
Boats docked at a tributary of the Amazon River in Iquitos, Peru. A Spanish tourist has said she and her family were robbed by armed ‘river pirates’ while on a boat trip. Photograph: Steve Cukrov/Alamy

A Spanish tourist has recounted how an armed gang calling themselves “river pirates” robbed her and her family aboard a boat travelling down the Amazon River in Peru.

In a video on TikTok, one of the tourists, Elisabet de la Almudena, said she experienced the “worst day of her life” on 14 May, when four armed assailants holding pistols and one machine gun boarded the boat she was travelling on with her parents and six-year-old daughter. She said the gunmen forced them to open banking apps on their phones and empty their accounts.

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