Two trucks, each packed with 1,000 kg of explosives, exploded on the street at 9:15 pm next to the Banco de Crédito del Perú Bank located in Larco Avenue, killing 25 and wounding 155.

Attacks, Incidents or Battles Massacres In 1992, Peru was in the midst of a terrorist insurgency between different groups, the most radical and active of which was Shining Path, a militant offshoot of the Peruvian Communist Party.

Earlier that year, a coup d'état led by President Alberto Fujimori on 5 April, in which he dissolved the Congress as part of a broader political crackdown, aggravated the domestic social conflict.

[5] Earlier Shining Path attacks that year included the 15 February murder of María Elena Moyano, a community organizer in the district of Villa El Salvador, who was shot at close range then blown up with dynamite.

Also, on 5 June a car bomb exploded beside the Frecuencia Latina television station near midnight, destroying the building and its surroundings and killing journalist Alejandro Pérez.

[8][9] This attack was used as a justification for the La Cantuta massacre two days later on 18 July, in which nine students and one teacher at the National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle, innocent civilians, were kidnapped and disappeared during the night by members of the Grupo Colina death squad.