Indigenous group holds dozens of tourists hostage, including Americans, in Peruvian Amazon oil spill protest

A group of Indigenous people in Peru's Amazon region has taken dozens of foreign and Peruvian tourists hostage as they made their way through the area on river tour boat. The Indigenous group says it took the action to protest the lack of government aid following an oil spill in the area, according to local media and members of the tour group.

"(We want) to call the government's attention with this action, there are foreigners and Peruvians, there are about 70 people," Watson Trujillo Acosta, the leader of the Cuninico community, told the country's national RPP radio network.

The tourists include citizens from the United States, Spain, France, the U.K. and Switzerland.