Ambush in the VRAEM: They reveal how the terrorist attack happened and the identity of seven police officers killed with long-range weapons

At 9:45 a.m. this Saturday, at Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers (VRAEM), the largest coca pond in the country, seven agents of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) were ambushed and killed with long-range firearms.

Troops from the Natividad Police Station, in Pichari (Cusco), and from the National Directorate of Special Operations (Dinoes) were working in the Minirini annex when they were surrounded in the all-terrain vehicle in this area where the forces armies have been fighting for more than two decades, to drug gangs and remnants of Bright Path.

Only the captain survived Edwin MegoFlashconfirmed the institution, which is investigating the link of the attack with the rest of the terrorist organization, which also operates as an armed protection group for cocaine producers in the region.

luminous pathresponsible for the greatest number of victims during the internal conflict in the country between 1980 and 2000, has evolved in recent decades into a mafia of drug trafficking, so much so that the Joint Command of the Armed Forces is deploying operations to end these groups.

Those who died were ST1 PNP Alfredo Loayza Carbajal; ST2 PNP Luis Cerron Palacios; S1 PNP Wilder Elisha I know; S1 PNP Ivan Muñoz Fasabi; S3 PNP Sandro Villegas Corahiua; S1 PNP Williams Quispe Anchay; S3 PNP Saul Huarco Samaniego.

In a statement posted on Twitter, the institution said that its personnel have been established “at the scene of the events – the area where the narcoterrorist organization headed by Víctor Quispe Palomino operates – to carry out the respective investigation and work corresponding investigation in coordination with the Public Prosecutor’s Office”.

“Police deeply regret the loss of seven brave officers and express their solidarity and condolences to loved ones and loved ones, securing all necessary support,” he said. The Defense Portfolio did the same in a statement.

A report of public eye highlighted that narco-terrorist violence in the Vraem haunts law enforcement and citizens. On May 23, 2021, in this area, 16 people, including three minors, were murdered.

Those responsible have not yet been identified and the relatives of the victims are still awaiting justice and reparations. The situation has not improved for the inhabitants of the Vizcatán del Ene neighborhood and, on the contrary, since this crime, more than 10 corpses have been found in this city.

In August 2022, the army reports having been “seriously” injured quispe palomino, “comrade José”, in an operation against the “terrorist camps”. A year and a half earlier, in January 2021, the military had dealt a severe blow to the guerrillas by killing the number two of the VRAEM Shining Path, “comrade Raúl”, one of the most wanted men in the country and brother of “Comrade José.”

Almost all of Sendero’s leaders are dead or imprisoned, but its remnants, led by “comrade José”, number some 350 members, some 80 of whom are armed.

The guerrilla group emerged as a Maoist organization that launched a so-called ‘people’s war’ in May 1980, which after two decades of clashes with the army left a death toll of 69,000 dead and missing, according to the Commission Truth and Reconciliation.