Overview

• La República counted seven firearm homicides in 24 hours across Peru, with multiple attacks carried out by assailants on motorcycles in Lima and Piura.
• In Comas, lawyer Xiomara Mirella Flores Bazán, 37, was shot dead while driving; her daughters, ages 5 and 7, were injured and remain hospitalized.
• In Chorrillos, driver Elton David Gómez Sánchez and his Venezuelan partner were killed in a car by gunmen on motorcycles near La Curva, and police are examining a possible link to collectivo extortion; a female passenger was gravely wounded.
• In Piura’s Veintiséis de Octubre, mechanic Jeanpierre Livia Aniceto, 25, and client José Pascual Durand Nizama, 63, were fatally shot outside a home workshop by attackers on a motorbike, with relatives calling for justice.
• In Argentina, authorities opened cases after a freight train struck a car at an unbarred San Lorenzo crossing (one dead), a Merlo police motorcyclist died in a door-opening and bus run-over incident classified as homicidio culposo, a Córdoba driver died after a 200‑meter ravine fall, and a 21‑year‑old motorcyclist died in a Junín bus collision with the driver testing 0.00 alcohol.