Peru Official Clubbed to Death by Guerrillas
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AYACUCHO, Peru — A lieutenant mayor of an Andean village was clubbed to death by Maoist guerrillas, police said Saturday.
They said a group of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas occupied the village of Tintay, 120 miles east of here and executed Pablo Torbisco, who belonged to the governing American Popular Revolutionary Alliance.
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