Embassies bombed in Peru’s capital

Press, 24 February 1986, Page 6

Embassies bombed in Peru’s capital

NZPA-Reuter Lima Leftist guerrillas bombed six embassies and at least 10 other targets in overnight assaults in Lima despite a recent crackdown on rebels. No deaths or injuries were reported. The blasts damaged the

embassies of West Germany, Spain, China, and India and chipped pavement off the footpath in front of the United States embassy. A dynamite blast went off near the Argentinian mission, but it showed no si ens of damaee.

The police said rebels in speeding cars had hurled sticks of dynamite at the buildings. A fire in the shape of a hammer and sickle was set on a hillside overlooking Lima in the sign traditionally used by the

Maoist Sendero Luminoso group to claim responsibility for an attack. It was the first series of bombings since February 7, when the President, Mr Alan Garcia, decreed a state of emergency and a four-hour curfew in

Lima. The measures, the strictest crack-down in the capital during the five-year guerrilla insurgency, were aimed at curbing the spread of Sendero rebels from the Andes to the capital.