Llochegua Clashes

Llocheuga clashes
Part of Peruvian conflict

VRAEM Special Command Operatives, seen in 2012. They would later be involved in the clashes.
Date17 July 2017
Location
Llochegua District, Peru
Result

Peruvian government victory

  • Narcoterrorists failed to rescue Ali Cueva Rojas
Belligerents

 Peru

Shining Path

  • Narcoterrorists
  • La Gran Grifa
Commanders and leaders
Daniel Sánchez Pacheco (WIA) Ali Cueva Rojas (POW)
Units involved
1 patrol car
1 helicopter
Casualties and losses
10 injured (9 police officers, 1 prosecutor)
1 police car destroy		 30 killed in action
1 captured

The Llochegua Clashes were a series of armed confrontations that took place on the afternoon of Friday, July 21, 2017, in the Peruvian district of Llochegua within the framework of the narcoterrorist insurgency in the Vraem, the specific location of the attack was in the Los Angeles area, specifically located in the highway that connects the districts of Llochegua and Pichari—when members of the Peruvian National Police were carrying the drug trafficking leader Ali Cueva Rojas. The combat originated as a response by the insurgents to the destruction of their clandestine drug production laboratories. The joint command of the Vraem forces ordered the sending of a helicopter to the conflict area to provide air support to the police forces.[1] The confrontation left nine police officers, as well as a prosecutor, injured, at the same time the drug trafficking leader who was trying to escape was captured again.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Vraem: reportan ataque narcoterrorista a patrulla de la PNP.
  2. ^ "Vraem: Ataque narcoterrorista contra patrulla de policías". Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  3. ^ "VRAEM: Narcoterroristas atacan patrulla de la Policía en Ayacucho". Archived from the original on 21 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  4. ^ Vraem: ataque narcoterrorista en Ayacucho deja al menos cinco policías heridos.