PERU: LIMA: HOSTAGE CRISIS COMES TO DRAMATIC END

Natural Sound After one hundred and twenty-six days, the Lima hostage crisis has come to a dramatic end. Peruvian forces ended the stand-off by retaking the Japanese ambassador’s residence in a blaze of gunfire and explosions. President Fujimori says two soldiers, one of the 72 hostages and all fourteen Tupac Amaru rebels died in the storming. In a bloody lightning assault, 150 Peruvian troops and police moved in to retake the Japanese ambassador’s mansion Tuesday afternoon local time (2030 GM