Nightclub bombing leaves more than 30 injured, several teens | World | News
Authorities confirmed that 33 people, including young people, were injured in a bomb attack on a nightclub, and that many people were in serious condition after the shocking explosion on Saturday night, March 7.
The explosion occurred before dawn at the Dali nightclub in Peru’s northern Trujillo province, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center. The South American nation has recently been plagued by violence and crime, the Associated Press reported.
It is not yet clear who is responsible for the attack. One reason was not urgenthas been known recently.
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According to Gerardo Florián Gómez, general director of the Trujillo Health Network, at least five of the injured are in serious condition. Some of the victims suffered amputations and shrapnel injuries and were undergoing surgery, he told reporters. Florián said there were three children among the injured, one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds.
Fiorella Mantilla, who was in the nightclub when the explosion occurred, told reporters she had glass embedded in her legs and recalled that it “sounded as if the sound system had suddenly been turned off.”
The explosion occurred less than a month after another explosion in the same city damaged 25 homes but caused no injuries or deaths.
Extortion and illegal mining plague the La Libertad region, whose Andean region is home to Peru’s largest gold-producing region. According to official figures, there were 286 explosions in the region in 2025, 136 of which were in the city of Trujillo.
In January 2025, an explosive device was detonated in a prosecutor’s office building in Trujillo, while dozens of houses were damaged and more than 20 people were injured in two explosions in August and September.
Authorities said such incidents were linked to an extortion scheme carried out by organized crime gangs, including Los Pulpos, which expanded their criminal activities to Chile and other countries in the region.
