Lima, Peru: Seven police died Saturday (Sunday in Manila) in an ambush while traveling in a coca-growing valley in southern Peru, the national police said.

The attack took place in La Convencion province in the Cusco region, in a wide valley known as VRAEM (the acronym stands for Valley of the Rivers Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro).

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