Overview
- In San Juan de Lurigancho, attackers on a motorcycle hurled an explosive at a packed San Sebastián ‘La 50’ bus, shattering windows and damaging a tire, with at least one person injured as police secured CCTV of the blast.
- Hours earlier in Jicamarca (Huarochirí), two gunmen on a motorcycle shot a Negociaciones Santa Anita driver, identified as Jorge Cabrera Fernández, who suffered a shoulder wound yet drove several blocks to seek help before being discharged from hospital.
- Transport unions set a Lima–Callao strike for January 15, saying some 220–230 companies — about 12,000 buses — will halt service to demand stronger prevention, tougher penalties and legal reforms such as anonymous tribunals.
- Operators report daily “cupos” payments to criminal groups — S/7 and S/5 per bus to two bands, according to a Santa Anita leader — and the Huáscar company has cut operations to roughly ten units after a recent shooting.
- In a related highway robbery case in Mexico, a double‑trailer crashed into the Tepotzotlán toll booth after the driver was tied up during an alleged assault, prompting lane restrictions as authorities responded.