Overview

• Hours after a driver was shot in San Juan de Lurigancho, a gunman wounded a bus driver and a seven-year-old passenger on the Huáscar route, with witnesses saying the attacker posed as a rider before opening fire.
• Police reported that a line 57 driver, identified as Demetrio Gregorio Osorio Villegas, was shot in the abdomen on Avenida Las Flores and said extortion is a likely motive under investigation.
• On Tuesday night, Santa Catalina driver Marco Antonio Huamán Cosco was wounded in SJL, where attackers left a note signed by “Los Injertos de SJL” threatening further killings; coworkers say it is the company’s fifth attack this year.
• In Cercado de Lima, two assailants on a motorcycle doused a combi serving the Lima–Callao route with fuel and set it ablaze, and the PNP said it is reviewing security footage and will step up operations.
• Transport workers report paying daily cupos to multiple gangs despite ongoing attacks, and the Asociación Nacional de Conductores announced a 48-hour work stoppage for September 27–28 to demand concrete security measures.