A bombing at a nightclub has injured 33 people including a number of teenagers, with several left in a serious condition after the shock Saturday (March 7) night blast, authorities have confirmed.
The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dali nightclub, in the northern province of Trujillo, inPeru, as per a statement from the local Emergency Operations Centre. The Associated Press reports that theSouth Americannation has recently beenplaguedby violence and crime.
It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible for the attack. A motive also wasn’t immediately known.
At least five of the injured were in serious condition, according to the executive director of the Trujillo Health Network, Gerardo Florián Gómez. Some of the victims suffered amputations and shrapnel wounds and were undergoing surgery, he told reporters. Among the injured are three minors: one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds, Florián said.
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Fiorella Mantilla, who was at the nightclub when the blast took place, told reporters that she had glass embedded in her legs and recalled that “it sounded as if the sound system had suddenly been turned off.”
The explosion took place less than a month after another blast in the same city that damaged 25 homes but caused no injuries or fatalities.
Extortion and illegal mining plague the La Libertad region, whose Andean portion is home to the largest gold-producing area in Peru. In 2025, the region experienced 286 explosions, 136 of which occurred in the city of Trujillo, according to official figures.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
