Seven members of the police were killed in an ambush attributed to the Shining Path guerrilla group and perpetrated around 9:45 a.m. this Saturday (15:45 Spanish peninsular time) in the town of Natividad, province of La Convención, in the region of Cusco, in the center-south of Peru.
«We regret the loss of our police brothers who have been ambushed when they were traveling in a police vehicle in the town of Natividad in the VRAEM, where seven officers have died and one police officer has survived,» the Peruvian police said in a statement.
The VRAEM is the designation used by Peruvian security forces to refer to the valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro rivers, an area where the Maoist guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso has a presence.
Among the dead are five agents of the National Directorate of Special Operations (DINOES) – Alfredo Loayza Carbajal, Luis Alberto Cerrón Palacios, Wilder Eliseo Conozco, Iván Muñoz Fasabi and Sandro Lorenzo Villegas Corahua – and members of the police station of the town center of Natividad – Williams Edgar Quispe Anchay and Saul Luis Huarco Samaniego – according to information gathered by the radio station RPP.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
