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PERU: POLICE SHOOTOUT WITH TUPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY GROUP

(1 Dec 1995) Spanish/Nat At least four people have been killed and eleven wounded in a shoot out between police and gunmen holding hostages in Lima. The gun battle came after an eleven-hour police stand-off with rebels who had seized their hostages in a house in the exclusive neighbourhood of Molina. The siege ended with the surrender of the leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and 14 other rebels. The eleven-hour Lima siege ended early Friday morning after the leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement- Miguel Rincon- surrendered along with 14 other rebels. Most of the rebels appeared to be in their teens and included several young women. The rebels took a family of four hostage after a robbery went wrong, and negotiated their surrender following a siege that ended Friday morning. A public prosecutor, a neighbourhood priest, a member of the Red Cross, and a journalist served as negotiators. At least four people were killed - one police officer, two rebels and one unidentified person. Eleven people were injured. The hostage family included a woman with two children and her mother. The father of the children became angry at photographers as they tried to take pictures of his wife and children. The siege began when the gunmen of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement attempted to raid a petrol station in the Molina area. But when the raid went wrong, they took a number of people hostage in a house across the street from the Mobil station as they tried to escape arrest. Police quickly arrived on the scene, but were forced to retreat under a hail of bullets fired into the darkness. A shoot-out developed, with both sides exchanging fire. The police managed to capture one of the suspected gunman and unceremoniously removed him from the scene. One of the policeman was shot and slumped to the ground - his colleagues quickly dragged him away from the line of fire. The police arrested another suspect and manhandled him into the back of a waiting patrol car. They were taking no chances with the gunmen. During the shootout the rebels retreated through five houses in the neighbourhood before settling in the fifth. Some of the houses bear the scars of the eleven-hour siege. SOUNDBITE: (In Spanish) "The shootout started at 9:30 in the evening and when they came around here we heard screams and machine guns and then we turned off the lights and locked ourselves in the bathroom which was the safest place." SUPER CAPTION: Eyewitness and resident of La Molina SOUNDBITE: (In Spanish) "Look, that's my room, the window. They shot (counting with finger) one, two, three, four, five, six times at the building." SUPER CAPTION: Eyewitness and resident of La Molina The Tupac Amaru movement is the second largest guerrilla group in Peru after the Shining Path. More than one-thousand members of the leftist organisation have been imprisoned, including its founder Victor Polay. But under the leadership of Miguel Rincon, most prominent among today's captives, the group has continued their sporadic attacks, mainly in the jungles. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...