Machu Picchu damage tourists deported, banned for 15 years

Five tourists accused of damaging Peru's iconic Machu Picchu site were deported to Bolivia on Thursday and barred from returning to the country for 15 years, police and immigration officials said.

Peru Migration said in a statement the tourists -- two Brazilians, an Argentine, a Chilean and a French woman -- had been given "the maximum punishment with expulsion and a ban on entry for a period of 15 years."

A sixth tourist, 28-year-old Argentine Nahuel Gomez, has been barred from leaving the small town of Machu Picchu after allegedly admitting to damaging the Temple of the Sun at the ancient Inca sanctuary.

He faces a trial in which he could be jailed for four years.

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