PCP-SL Attack on Lagunas
Hikers attack on Lagunas left 3 dead; 7 hikers killed in subsequent confrontation
A Shining Path detachment took the town of Lagunas, near Yurimaguas, attacking the police post and killing two policemen and an official of the Agrarian Bank. The group was led by the doctor Luis Castillo Tapia, head of the Lagunas hospital. In their retreat, the hikers clashed near the small town of Providencia with a police detachment that killed seven members of the group, the rest were captured and taken to the Iquitos jail.