Peruvian drug lords attack army base LIMA, July 6 (UPI) -- Drug traffickers have attacked a military base in Peru's Apurimac and Ene river valley. A soldier died in the assault on attack on the Canayre military base in Huanta province in Ayacucho. Government officials said that the assault was carried out by remnants of the Maoist Shining Path rebels, the Andean Air Mail & Peruvian Times reported on Thursday. During the 1980s the Sendero Luminoso Shining Path guerrillas waged a bloody campaign against the Peruvian government in which more than 60,000 people were killed before the insurgency was quashed. Since then the remnants of Shining Path have increasing served as security for Peruvian cocaine traffickers who are concentrated in the country's upper reaches of the Amazon. Analysts believe Shining Path is now also involved in growing and processing cocaine. Two months ago Shining Path militants killed 10 Peruvian security personnel who were seeking to liberate 40 natural gas workers in Cuzco region held by the group.