Attacks, Incidents or Battles Massacres 2016 attacks in Santo Domingo de Acobamba and Llochegua took place on the eve of the 2016 Peruvian general election,[2] when groups of Shining Path guerrilla fighters armed with long-range rifles and grenades, ambushed a Peruvian military caravan of eight vehicles at Hatun Asha.

The vehicles were transporting election ballots and related materials and their transport was handled by soldiers of the 311th Battalion of the Peruvian Armed Forces, who were tasked with guarding polling places in the central Junin region, while the patrol was also to serve in Lima.

The ambush left a total of nine government soldiers and two civilian contractors dead as well as five others who escaped wounded.

The attack was condemned by various figures, including then president Ollanta Humala, and prominent politicians like Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Alan Garcia, Alejandro Toledo, and Verónika Mendoza.

[10][11] The ambush marked the deadliest Shining Path attack in years and a resurgence of the group to disrupt the Peruvian general elections.