Canadian was killed in Peru, Global Affairs says
Posted Apr 22, 2018 10:37:38 AM.
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The federal government says a Canadian was killed in Peru.
Global Affairs Canada says the death was related to the reported assassination of Indigenous elder Olivia Arevalo Lomas.
Arevalo Lomas was a human rights activist of the Shipibo-Konibo people in the Ucayali region.
The federal government says it is providing consular assistance to the family of the Canadian.
The government extended its condolences following Arevalo Lomas’s death.