The leader and founder of Peru's Shining Path rebel group, Abimael Guzmán, has died at the age of 86, APA reports citing BBC.
A former philosophy professor, he had been serving a life sentence for terrorism and treason since 1992.
In July he suffered health problems and was transferred from a maximum security prison to a hospital.
Almost 70,000 people died or disappeared in more than a decade of conflict between the Maoist guerrilla group and the Peruvian state.
Guzmán's arrest hit the group hard, but a few of its members are still active in the coca-producing region.
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