The World - News from Dec. 16, 1987
Presumed Maoist guerrillas shot and killed the head of the state development corporation in the northern Peruvian city of Piura, police said, in the ninth assassination of a government official this month. They said the guerrillas, believed to be from the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), opened fire on Ricardo Ramos, 58, after a dynamite bomb exploded under the car he was getting into. He was uninjured by the blast, they said, but was shot in the head.
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