Overview
- An explosive detonated around 2:30–2:40 a.m. outside the Monasterio discotheque in Víctor Larco, severely damaging the Armonía 10 de Walther Lozada bus without causing injuries.
- Security footage reported by local media shows two individuals on a motorcycle approaching the parked vehicle and deploying the device before it exploded.
- The PNP cordoned the area as Divincri began forensic work, and the Third Corporate Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Trujillo opened an extortion investigation.
- Investigators are weighing whether the nightclub was the intended target after reports of extortion markers linked to the ‘Los Pulpos’ gang, with the bus becoming collateral damage.
- Two drivers inside the bus evacuated safely as staff extinguished a fire; the blast wrecked the left-side baggage area, instruments and wardrobe, with repairs estimated above 25,000 soles, and the band condemned the attack and suspended some shows.