Indigenous people in Peruvian Amazon detain tourists in oil spill protest

About 70 people seized in protest at environmental damage from crude oil spillage into Cuninico River

Indigenous people in the Amazon in Peru have detained a group of Peruvian and foreign tourists, including UK and US citizens, in protest at a lack of government aid following an oil spill in the area.

[We want] to call the government's attention with this action, There are foreigners and Peruvians, there are about 70 people," Watson Trujillo, the leader of the Cuninico community, told RPP radio.