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Seven policemen are murdered in an ambush in the coca-growing area of ​​Peru: they accuse Sendero Luminoso

2023-02-12T13:10:06.705Z


It happened in a town that belongs to the department of Cuzco and is part of Vraem, an area that has been in a state of emergency for more than a decade due to the presence of the remnants of the terrorist group.


At least seven agents of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) were

killed this Saturday in an ambush

by "suspected terrorists with long-range firearms" in the Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers (Vraem), the largest basin cocalera in the country, an area where the last redoubt of Sendero Luminoso offends.

"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 Vraem, where seven officers have died and one police officer has survived," the PNP confirmed on its Twitter account. .

The attack

occurred near the town of Natividad,

in the Pichari district, which belongs to the department of Cuzco and is part of Vraem, an area that has remained in a state of emergency for more than a decade due to the presence of the remnants of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso. , which coexist with illicit drug trafficking.

Sources of the investigation indicated that they are investigating the details of what happened and those responsible for the deaths, as well as their links to the remnant of Sendero Luminoso, which functions as an armed protection group for cocaine producers in the region.

Images disseminated in local media show several vehicles on the road and among them, an overturned truck with signs of shots and police bodies traveling in the back.

The Police reported on social networks that the deceased are the agents Alfredo Loayza Carbajal, Luis Cerron Palacios, Wilder Eliseo Conozco, Iván Muñoz Fasabi, Sandro Villegas Corahiua, Williams Quispe Anchay, Saul Huarco Samaniego and the only survivor, who was injured, is the Captain Edwin Mego Villogas.

Investigate Shining Path 

Shining Path, responsible for the largest number of victims during the internal conflict in the country between 1980 and 2000, has evolved in recent decades into a drug trafficking mafia and for two decades there have been operations by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces to put an end to These groups.

The Ministry of the Interior "deeply regretted the loss of the seven courageous police officers who had been carrying out their duties in the place" and sent its condolences to the families of the deceased in a statement confirming the details of the attack.

"We express our deep regret for the death of our courageous police officers cowardly in a hole in the town center of Natividad, in Vraem. Our deepest condolences to their loved ones and to the entire police family," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. statement released on social media.

EFE

EFE source

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