2016 Tumeremo massacre

Tumeremo massacre
LocationTumeremo, Bolivar State, Venezuela
DateMarch 8, 2016 (2016-03-08)
TargetTumeremo miners
Deaths4 (confirmed); 24 disappeared, supposedly murdered[1]

The Tumeremo massacre occurred on 8 March 2016, in which 28 miners were murdered and kidnapped in the town of Tumeremo, located in the state of Bolívar, Venezuela. On the night of 4 March 2016, they were in the Atenas mine, on the border between the municipalities of Sifontes and Roscio, a poor area where, like most of the southeast of the country, the main economic activity is mining.[2]

  1. ^ "Sin rastro de desaparecidos en mina de Tumeremo". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Miedo, desolación y ningún rastro de mineros desaparecidos a 48 horas de protesta en Tumeremo". Correo del Caroní (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.