LIMA Peruvian troops stormed the Japanese ambassador's mansionTuesday, rescued 71 hostages held for four months, and killed all 14rebel captors.
One captive, Supreme Court Justice Carlos Giusti, and twosoldiers also died, President Alberto Fujimori said. Some hostageswere secretly warned just before the raid, one of the freed men said.
Fujimori said 25 other captives were injured by gunfire andexplosions, although only two were seriously hurt - Peruvian ForeignMinister Francisco Tudela and another Supreme Court justice, bothwith gunshot wounds."I didn't waver for a single minute in giving the order for thisrescue operation," said Fujimori, who steadfastly …
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