Posted on 06/25/2004 10:01:07 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
LIMA, Peru, June 24 (Reuters) - Some 30 Shining Path rebels killed one soldier in an attack on a military patrol in Peru's Andean region, the second fatal assault on state security forces this month, the army said on Thursday.
Rebels attacked soldiers guarding an asphalt factory on Wednesday in the remote highland town of Cangari 360 miles (575 kms) southeast of Lima, an army spokeswoman told Reuters.
"One soldier was killed in the attack," she said, adding that there were no reports of injured officers.
The Maoist-inspired Shining Path, which has largely been dormant since the 1992 capture of its leader, Abimael Guzman, told a local television station in April its armed struggle was to resume. Rebels killed two policemen and a naval officer in an ambush earlier in June in the central jungle region.
The government has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of "Comrade Artemio," the highest-ranking leader of the rebels still at large.
Shining Path, which led one of Latin America's bloodiest insurgencies in the 1980s and 1990s, has carried out sporadic attacks on security forces in recent years.
Rebels planted a car bomb in Lima two years ago that killed 10 people and briefly kidnapped 71 gas pipeline workers last year.
Shining Path seems to have re-activated. Not Good.
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