WORLD IN BRIEF : PERU : Inmates Surrender After Police Assault
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
About 600 Maoist guerrilla inmates holed up in a cellblock at the Canto Grande prison in Lima surrendered after a daylong assault by authorities, police and witnesses said. The operation was part of President Alberto Fujimori’s move to stamp out the 12-year-old Shining Path insurgency. About 45 injured rebels were taken to hospitals after the surrender. The rebels had seized control of the cellblock four days ago, after officials tried to transfer 130 female prisoners from Canto Grande to another jail.
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