10 Injured in Lima Bombings During Presidential Address
Ten people, including two policemen, were injured when bombs exploded in four cars only a few hundred yards from a square where President Alan Garcia was delivering a speech, police said Saturday.
Three of the bombs exploded in cars outside a complex of police buildings several hundred yards from the central square where Garcia was addressing a rally Friday of his American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, police said.
The fourth blast was outside offices of the Southern Peru Copper Corp. in the fashionable suburb of San Isidro.
Two policeman and eight passers-by were injured, one of them seriously, when the bombs, with about 10 pounds of explosive each, went off almost simultaneously, police said.
They said Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas, whose six-year insurgency has cost nearly 10,000 lives, were thought to have planted the bombs.
Fifteen parked cars were destroyed in the blasts, which also blew out windows and damaged the facades of several colonial houses.
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