Sendero Luminoso Rebels Kill 6
Guerrillas of the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) killed six men in the same family early Wednesday in the northern Peruvian province of Chiclayo, a police official said.
The attack came on the ninth day of a hostage crisis in the capital triggered by Peru’s other main rebel group, the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
The police official, who asked not to be named, said about 20 guerrillas were involved in the provincial attack, stabbing the men to death in the early hours of Christmas Day.
Rebels dragged the men out of the family’s house in the isolated village of Huarmaca, about 500 miles north of Lima, the capital, before killing them and burning their truck, the official said.
The guerrillas murdered the men because they believed they had given information about guerrilla activity in the Pacific coast region to the police, he said.
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