Peru’s national police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of Jorge Luis Injoque, a geologist working for Barrick Gold in that country. The suspect’s name was not released.
Injoque died July 23 during a raid on a mining camp near the village of Azanbamba, about 400 km southeast of Lima. Five armed men entered the camp while the field crew was eating. Geologist Italo Rodriguez was shot in the back, and survived, and Injoque was shot and killed while trying to aid him. The attackers took money, a truck, satellite telephones, computers, and other equipment. Five other members of the field crew were roughed up but otherwise unharmed.
The Maoist terrorist group Shining Path was initially suspected in the attack, but the attackers are now thought to be thieves.
Injoque, 49, was a consulting geologist based in Lima. He was married and had three sons.
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