Brits ‘among 150 tourists taken HOSTAGE’ including women & kids by indigenous Amazon tribe in horror anti-regime protest

MORE than 100 tourists including Brits have reportedly been taken hostage in the Amazon rainforest by a group of indigenous protesters. The group of 150, including pregnant women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, were captured as they tried to cross the Marañón river in northern Peru. rpp newsSome 150 people including Brits have been taken hostage in the Amazon rainforest[/caption] Others among the captured include American, Spanish, French, and Swiss citizens, as well as a number of Peruvian nationals. Indigenous residents of the local Cuninico community say they are protesting the Peruvian government’s lack of aid following a recent oil spill in the river. Sources claim the captors have said they will hold the hostages for up to eight days. Ángela Ramírez, the daughter of Araceli Alva, who is one of the detained, has spoken to the press. “They told us that it was because they sought the State’s attention to solve the oil spill 46 times and that as a result there are now two deceased children and a woman,” she told the Peruvian publication “Las Cosas como Son”. She added that her mother had told her the youngest on board was a one-month-old baby, while disabled people, pregnant women, and the elderly were also being held. Most read in News ROCKET PANIC Spanish flight chaos after out-of-control Chinese rocket flies overhead WILD WEST BRITAIN Three people stabbed by gang sparking massive police hunt for knifemen TOUGH TALK Russia warns 'UK is too deep' in war & claims it will share proof of drone blast FIND HIM NOW Urgent hunt for man after woman in her 20s 'raped on night out in city centre' CAUGHT OUT Insurance cheat 'unable to exercise after crash' climbed Sydney Harbour Bridge TERRIFIED & ALONE Boy, 15, seen shaking before being tortured to death by mum & her partner