Attack on Chucapuente police station

First attack by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against a police post in the province of Aymaraes, Apurimac, occurred on July 11, 1986 in Chucapuente.

On July 11, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out its first attack on a police post in the province of Aymaraes, Apurimac. This attack occurred in Chucapuente, a few days after the first confrontation between the PCP-SL and the army in Soccos on July 7 of the same year. This event marked an escalation of violence in the department of Apurimac, where the internal armed conflict was expanding from the provinces of Andahuaylas and Chincheros to other areas of the department.

Source: Informe CVR, página 268
Location: Chucapuente, Aymaraes, Apurímac, Perú