The World - News from Feb. 23, 1986
Leftist guerrillas threw dynamite from speeding cars at the U.S Embassy in Lima, Peru, and other foreign missions, government offices and local headquarters of the governing party in the capital. No one was reported hurt in the bombings, which capped three days of rebel attacks in mountain and jungle provinces that killed 11 people, according to official reports. Officials said that in addition to the U.S. Embassy, the blasts occurred at the embassies of West Germany, India, Spain and Argentina; the Lima bureau of the New China News Agency and two offices of President Alan Garcia’s American Popular Revolutionary Alliance party.
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