Two siblings bombed a Peruvian hospital Tuesday in an act of revenge after their mother died there seven years ago.
Lenin Alexander, 40, and Claudia Rocio Benitez Aguirre, 44, placed two homemade bombs at the entrance of a lab and in the parking garage area of the Ricardo Palma Clinic in San Isidro, Lima, at 11am local time, according to a hospital worker who answered the phone to DailyMail.com.
In total, 35 people were injured, including the attackers, in the horrific explosion.
It was the siblings’ revenge after their mother, Victoria Aguirre Oviedo, died at the hospital after undergoing surgery for migraines in 2011.
Lenin Alexander (left) and Claudia Rocio Benitez Aguirre (right) were the siblings who carried out the bombing at the Peruvian hospital
Authorities looked for additional survivors in the parking garage of the clinic
A plice officer surveys the site of the hospital bombing in Peru that left 35 injured, including both attackers
According to El Comercio, the mother of both attackers had been diagnosed with a brain tumors and underwent a craniotomy on August 24, 2011 at the Ricardo Palma Clinic.
Aguirre Oviedo returned home the following day but her head swelled up, she lost her eyesight and she wasn’t talking at all, her widower Alejandro Benitez Gomez said in an interview with America TV on Tuesday night.
She suggered additional brain damage and later died. The family filed a claim against the clinic and received a judgment in their favor, although they received just a fraction of the money.
‘It was done in revenge, because in reality we have five years [in trial], we have beaten [the hospital] on two occasions and they’ve denied paying us,’ Benitez Gomez claimed.
According to Peru’s National Police General Gaston Rodriguez, Alexander and Benitez Aguirre placed each explosive inside backpacks. One of the explosives was set off near a car and another near a lab within minutes of each other.
Hospital workers and patients were cleared out of the Peruvian hospital as first responders searched the area
Alejandro Benitez Gomez, father of both attackers, met with the media at his home
Percy Benitez Aguirre, brother of the hospital bombers, denounced their actions
Both perpetrators suffered fractures and burns from their own attack, and were placed immediately under police supervision while they underwent surgery and transferred to the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Their actions were quickly condemned by their brother Percy Benitez Aguirre, whom also expressed his frustrations with the hospital and judicial system for the lack of action taken after the malpractice lawsuit.
‘I don’t justify it. I don’t agree with it. You can’t justify it,’ Benitez Aguirre said during a press conference outside the hospital. ‘They must comply with the law.’
The clinic remains open.