ASUNCION, PARAGUAY—Suspected members of a little-known rebel group killed eight soldiers in an attack in northern Paraguay on Saturday, just days after guerrillas and officials in Colombia reached a peace deal to end the longest-running insurgency in Latin America. Paraguayan Interior Minister Francisco De Vargas reported the first five deaths from the attack in Arroyito, a town about 490 kilometres from Asuncion. Dr. Bernardo Jacquet, a physician at Hospital Concepcion, located some 90 kilometres from where the attack occurred, later said the death toll had risen to eight. Authorities suspect the attack was carried out by a little-known Paraguayan guerrilla group called the Paraguayan People’s Army. Federico Delfino, the country’s prosecutor for anti-kidnapping efforts, said the attackers got away with eight M4 carbines, bulletproof vests and the victims’ personal belongings.

Source: thestar August 28, 2016 15:00 UTC