A mass grave containing 17 bodies has been found in the Andes mountains of Peru.
The dead are thought to have died in the 1980s, when local farmers were kidnapped by Shining Path rebels and disappeared.
Prosecutor Honorio Casallo Diaz said investigations carried out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission suggested the farmers had been abducted in the 1980s from the town of Vilcashuaman.
Villagers in the Ayacucho region were often caught between the government and the militants, a conflict which left over 70,000 people dead.
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