PERU: Attack on police forces in Ayacucho

On Wednesday. March 04, several National Police patrols were ambushed in the area of Apurimac and Mantaro Rivers, in the province of Ayachuco, in Peru.

The incident took place when the security forces were on duty in the center of Santa Rosa, Canayre district. The attackers fired several rounds at the bypassing trucks, killing two of the occupants. On of the shot person was identified as a subject called “Raulito”, a suspected former member of armed revolutionary forces, which is now collaborating with the old Peruvian state to fight the people's war and other progressive forces.

Later the combatans set fire to one of the trucks. After this attack the operation was cancelled.