At least 18 dead in Peru by a terrorist attack by Sendero Luminoso

At least 18 people have died in an attack by the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso in the province of Satipo, in the central jungle of Peru, police sources confirmed today.. The attack took place in the Junín region, in the jungle Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers (VRAEM)..

According to the general commander of the police, César Cervantes, the attack caused the death of at least ten men, six women and two children, in an area of bars and brothels near the banks of the Ene river in the San Miguel area of Ene, one of the areas dominated by drug trafficking. The remnants of the terrorist group have been operating in this area for decades, which functions as an armed protector of cocaine producers in the region..

The images of the place show bullet casings and a pamphlet with the logo of the Communist Party of Peru, the official name of Sendero Luminoso, in the middle of a camp in the middle of the jungle.. In that pamphlet, the inhabitants would be urged not to vote for the presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori.

Shining Path, responsible for the largest number of victims during the internal conflict in the country between 1980 and 2000, had turned into a drug-trafficking mafia in recent decades, and there have been no known attacks on the population for years.