The World : Peru Official Ambushed
The head of Peru’s elections board, his driver and a bodyguard were all critically wounded when five men, firing machine guns, ambushed the official’s car. President Fernando Belaunde Terry rushed to the hospital after learning of the assassination attempt against his cousin, Domingo Garcia Rada, 72. He announced that Garcia Rada’s condition was “extremely critical” and described the incident as an attack on democracy. Peruvian officials blamed the attack on the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path).
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