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Seven Police Officers Killed in Peru's Region Known for Hideouts of Shining Path Militants
Seven Police Officers Killed in Peru's Region Known for Hideouts of Shining Path Militants
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Seven police officers were killed on Saturday in an ambush in Peru's central region known to be one of the hotspots of coca production and home to members of the rebel Maoist group Shining Path, the National Police said.
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The attack took place in the valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro rivers — known under the acronym VRAEM — an impoverished region also called Peru's "cocaine valley," being a major producer of the coca plant. "We mourn the loss of our police brothers who were ambushed when they were traveling in a police vehicle in the town center of Natividad in the Vraem, where 7 policemen have been killed and one police officer has survived," the police said on Twitter. The RPP broadcaster reported that law enforcers were investigating the suspected involvement of the Shining Path group in the deadly attack. The Shining Path group originated in the 1960s among university teachers and students of one of the poorest Peruvian departments of Ayacucho. In 1980, it reorganized into an armed group and began terrorist activities against government officials. After the defeat in the early 1990s, the group joined local drug dealers, according to Peruvian authorities.
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Seven Police Officers Killed in Peru's Region Known for Hideouts of Shining Path Militants
BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Seven police officers were killed on Saturday in an ambush in Peru's central region known to be one of the hotspots of coca production and home to the remaining members of the rebel Maoist group Shining Path, the National Police said.
The attack took place in the valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro rivers — known under the acronym VRAEM — an impoverished region also called Peru's "cocaine valley," being a major producer of the coca plant.
"We mourn the loss of our police brothers who were ambushed when they were traveling in a police vehicle in the town center of Natividad in the Vraem, where 7 policemen have been killed and one police officer has survived," the police said on Twitter.
The RPP broadcaster reported that law enforcers were investigating the suspected involvement of the Shining Path group in the deadly attack.
The Shining Path group originated in the 1960s among university teachers and students of one of the poorest Peruvian departments of Ayacucho. In 1980, it reorganized into an armed group and began terrorist activities against government officials. After the defeat in the early 1990s, the group joined local drug dealers, according to Peruvian authorities.
