 On March 20, 2002, a car bomb exploded at "El Polo," a mall in a wealthy district of Lima near the US embassy.On June 9, 2003, a Shining Path group attacked a camp in Ayacucho, and took 68 employees of the Argentine company Techint and three police guards hostage.The hostages worked at the Camisea gas pipeline project that takes natural gas from Cuzco to Lima.