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They seized 100 kilos of cyanide

The chemical product was going to be used for informal miners

Sullana.- More than one hundred kilos of cyanide, used in informal mining, were confiscated by staff of the PNP in the District of Las Lomas roads Control during an operation.

The intervention occurred to her height of the kilometer 11.89 of the Pan-American Highway, when the police stopped the rural truck plate RI 5592 gray led by Vladimiro Valdivieso Barreto (31) traveling in the company of Sigifredo Valdivia walls (73).

To register the vehicle found a sack grey sugar Valdez containing sodium cyanide used by miners to their pools of the processing plants where to extract the gold.

This chemical is banned in this part of the country for being an agricultural area. Valdivia said becoming owner of the radioactive material stating that it led him to its processing plant at the La Cantina bridge.

The highway police transfer the deposit to the PNP Commissioner of Las Lomas for lack of relevant documentation. The respective investigations are carried out.