A bombing at a nightclub in Peru’s Trujillo area injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday, as emergency response teams treated victims from the pre-dawn blast at the Dali venue. The explosion happened in the coastal province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, the local Emergency Operations Center said in a statement.

Health officials said the casualties included children and that several victims suffered severe injuries. Gerardo Florián Gómez, executive director of the Trujillo Health Network, told reporters that at least five of the injured were in serious condition and that some victims had amputations and shrapnel wounds, which required surgery. He also said three minors were among the injured, including one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds.

Fiorella Mantilla, who was at the nightclub when the blast took place, described the moment to reporters, saying, “it sounded as if the sound system had suddenly been turned off,” according to the account reported by authorities. She also said she had glass embedded in her legs.

Authorities said it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the bombing and that a motive was not immediately known. The attack came less than a month after another blast in the same city, which damaged 25 homes but caused no injuries or fatalities, according to the report.

Officials have tied explosions in the broader La Libertad region to an extortion scheme run by organized criminal gangs, including Los Pulpos, the report said. La Libertad’s Andean portion contains Peru’s largest gold-producing area, and the region has faced ongoing violence and crime, according to the report.

In 2025, the region experienced 286 explosions, with 136 occurring in the city of Trujillo, based on official figures cited in the report. The report also cited earlier attacks in Trujillo, including an explosive device detonated in January 2025 in a prosecutor’s office building and blasts in August and September that damaged dozens of homes and left more than 20 people injured.

It was not immediately clear Saturday whether the Dali nightclub blast was linked to those prior incidents.