Overview
- Police discovered the bodies of two minors inside an abandoned personnel minivan on Costa Negra beach near km 112 of the Carretera Costanera Sur.
- The victims were identified in reports by their initials as a 9-year-old and a 1-year-old and had been the subject of a missing-person complaint filed by their mother.
- The minivan, reported by one outlet with plate CCM-513, was found about 200 meters from the road and an open, empty envelope that police say could have contained rodent poison was located outside the vehicle.
- After the discovery, authorities confirmed the children’s deaths and transferred the bodies to Ilo’s central morgue for a legal necropsy while peritos de criminalística continue on-scene evidence collection.
- Specialized PNP rescue teams and drones are searching for the mother's partner, identified in reports as Bernardino C. C., whose absence from the scene is central to the ongoing investigation.