Attack on Urubamba police post
On May 7, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the police post of the Civil Guard in Urubamba, Cuzco, as part of its campaign of violent actions against the forces of law and order in the provinces of Cuzco.
On May 7, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard police post in Urubamba, province of the department of Cuzco. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that the PCP-SL carried out against police posts in the provinces of Cuzco during the period of expanding violence between 1984 and 1988. The attack on Urubamba occurred in the context of an intensification of subversive operations in the region, which also included attacks against public and private institutions, sabotage of infrastructure and selective assassinations.