Last night, Sunday, November 1, a subject detonated an explosive device in front of the home of Marcelino Huamán, elected mayor of Villa El Salvador in the last Regional and Municipal Elections 2026.
Last night, Sunday, November 1, a subject detonated an explosive device in front of the home of Marcelino Huamán, elected mayor of Villa El Salvador in the last Regional and Municipal Elections 2026.
Security cameras captured when, at around 11 p.m., a young man dressed in black shorts and a hood of the same colorlit an object and threw it at the door of Huamán’s home and then fled in an unknown direction while being chased, apparently, by local residents.
Members of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) arrived at the scene, who verified that there were no injuries, but there was damage to the infrastructure of the gate, the garage and a parked lead-colored car that belonged to the mayor.
For RPP, the elected authority of Villa El Salvador He maintained that they have always been frontal in pointing out corruption “what’s in the municipality. So, I don’t have enemies from anywhere, so it must come from somewhere,” he pointed out.
Huaman He detailed that, during this year’s campaign, an artifact was also left explosive in your home; but at that moment the Police managed to deactivate it.
On October 25, the Government of Keiko Fujimori extended the state of emergency in Metropolitan Lima and the Constitutional Province of Callaowith the aim of confronting crime and other situations of violence. The measure was made official through the Supreme Decree No. 142-2026-PCMpublished in the Legal Standards section of the official newspaper El Peruano.
The new extension came into force on October 28, 2026, because the previous declaration, established by the Supreme Decree No. 123-2026-PCMremains in force until that date.
