LIMA, Peru Rebel tossed sticks of dynamite exploded Friday night at the embassies of the United States and six other nations, No injuries were immediately reported, but the blasts caused extensive damage.
A stick of dynamite that rebels threw at the U.S. Embassy on Lima’s central Wilson Avenue exploded on the sidewalk fronting the three story building, an Embassy spoke man said.
“It took a chip out of the concrete at the curb,” said the spokesman, who asked to remain unidentified.
“Radio reports said a brief shootout occurred at the US. Embassy, and explosions caused extensive damage at the embassies of China, India, Spain, Great Britain, West Germany and Argentina in various sectors of the city. Indian Embassy was hit hardest; The dynamite extensively damaged a second floor balcony of the Ambassador’s office and tore off the garage. At least two offices of President Alan Garcia’s center left political party in western Lima Were also targets,
The bombings marked the first since President Alan Garcia imposed a state of emergency in metropolitan Lima Feb. 7 to stop an ‘unprecedented wave of urban terrorism.
Soldiers in small tanks started patrolling Lima’s streets immediately after the attacks.
‘An explosion at the Spanish Embassy knocked out the lower half of double front doors in central Lima, The embassy is a block from the Joint Command of Peru’s armed forces, the headquarters of military efforts to combat the reels.
Rebels attacked with dynamite two offices of the APRA, or American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, party in the western Lima districts of Magdalena and San Miguel.
The Magdalena party offices held about 20 people at the time of the bombing, but no one was injured, according to an unidentified party official interviewed on Lima’s independent Radio program as.
Elsewhere in Peru, a rebel attack blacked out Ayacuchok, the city 230 miles southeast of the capital where the Maoist rebel group Shining Path first launched its guerrilla war in May 1980.
Radio reports said the blackout was caused by an explosion that knocked down high power electric pylons near the city.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 28, 1986
