Three dead in attack ahead of Peru election

  10 April 2016    Read: 917
Three dead in attack ahead of Peru election
Suspected leftist rebels in Peru have killed three people in an attack ahead of Sunday`s presidential election.
Two soldiers and a driver died in the attack on a vehicle carrying election materials in a remote coca-growing region, the military said.

The election frontrunner is Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who cracked down on the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas.

However she is not expected to win a clear majority.

Opinion polls indicate that she will not obtain the 50% of votes needed to avoid a second run-off round.

Her closest challengers are centrist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and left-winger Veronika Mendoza.

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Keiko Fujimori has marketed herself as being tough on crime and is supported by some Peruvians who credit her father with defeating the rebels.

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