[Tailgunner Joe]

"The attack with dynamite and grenades took place Thursday, and victims included a captain, a junior officer and 11 soldiers," Flores Araoz told a press conference, adding that the remote jungle area and communications problems accounted for the delay in announcing the attack.

The assault, one of the deadliest by the once-formidable Maoist guerrilla group in the past decade, also left one person missing and two more wounded.

"Most of the soldiers plunged over a cliff," the minister said, but the circumstances of the deaths and the fall off the mountainside were not immediately clear.

The ambush came only hours after one soldier was killed and four were wounded in another Shining Path attack on a military patrol in the same area of Ayacucho department, 550 kilometers (341 miles) southeast of the capital Lima. - AFP

[padre35]

The Left in Peru prosecuted Alberto Fujimori now their fellow travelors are killing soldiers again, it’s pathetically predictable.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the jungle! I wonder at the coincidence of the timing... wasn’t Fujimori just sentence for human rights violations in his fight against the SP?

[ChicagahAl]

Every country in Central and South America needs a Pinochet.

Mexico could use one, too.

By the next election, the US will need one.

[fella]

"Most of the soldiers plunged over a cliff," the minister said, but the circumstances of the deaths and the fall off the mountainside were not immediately clear.

If you've ever seen Peruvian roads you can fully understand how they could plunge over a cliff without an attack.

[SumProVita]

They need to bring back Fujimori!

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.