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Miraflores residents retrieve their belongings after the Tarata Street bombing
Miraflores residents salvage their belongings following the calle Tarata attack. On July 16, 1992, a car bomb exploded on that street in the Lima district of Miraflores. As a result of the detonation, 23 people died, more than one hundred were wounded, and extensive material damage was recorded. This attack by Sendero Luminoso was one of the most emblematic of the early 1990s, when terror was used as part of the Shining Path's strategy in the city of Lima.