Peru’s Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation on Monday into the death of seven policemen at the hands of the Shining Path guerrilla group last Saturday in the province of La Convención, in the Cuzco region, in the center-south of the country.
Specifically, the Specialized Criminal Prosecutor’s Office for Terrorism and Related Crimes, based in the city of Pichari, has begun to investigate the facts surrounding the case, initiating the removal of the bodies and their transfer to a medical unit for necropsy, as reported by RPP radio station.
The policemen were ambushed while in a police vehicle in the town of Natividad in the VRAEM (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 (Shining Path) has a presence).
Previously, the non-commissioned officers of the Peruvian National Police received respective honors from their fellow officers as martyrs of their institution.
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 of Natividad – Williams Edgar Quispe Anchay and Saul Luis Huarco Samaniego – according to the information gathered by the aforementioned radio station.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
