Armed men attack a military helicopter in Peru and a minor is injured

The Peruvian Army has denounced this Wednesday that a military helicopter has been the target of an attack by an armed group in the Ayacucho region, where a minor has been shot.

The Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Peru has indicated that the incident took place around 06:00 (local time) in the Llochegua district, in the south of the country, when a military helicopter was “attacked by a column of terrorist criminals receiving bullet impacts in the fuselage”.

The aircraft, however, has been able to carry out maneuvers to return to the Peruvian town of Pichari, which is located a few kilometers away, but in the Cuzco region.

“At 8:45 a.m., it was learned that a 13-year-old adolescent was injured as a result of the terrorist attack with a projectile from a minor weapon, causing a slight injury to her right leg,” reads a statement in which the Army indicates that the minor has been airlifted to a hospital where she is stable.

The authorities have reiterated their commitment to pacify the VRAEM area, which is the designation used by the Peruvian security forces to refer to the valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers, an area in which the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla is present.