Peru's president says 'no impunity' for those behind jungle massacre

FILE PHOTO: Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman and his wife and second leader Elena Iparraguirre attend a trial during sentence of a 1992 Shining Path car bomb case in Miraflores, at a high security naval prison in Callao, Peru September 11, 2018. Picture taken through a window. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo/File Photo

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's interim president said on Tuesday there will be "no impunity" for the authors of a massacre of 16 Peruvians in a jungle region known for cocaine production, which authorities attribute to a dissident faction of Shining Path rebels.

"We are doing all we can to deploy the police and the military in a way that we can efficiently combat this plague," interim President Francisco Sagasti told reporters. "We know this is a rough terrain with many ravines that the narcoterrorists know very well."