(28 Apr 2012) 1. Wide of coffins of police officers killed in combat being carried at police air base
2. Mid of police officers carrying coffins draped in Peruvian flags
3. Mid of government officials
4. Wide of police officers carrying coffins
5. Mid of relatives of dead officers
6. Wide of ceremony
7. Mid of police officers standing to attention
8. Mid of ceremony
9. Close of coffins being carried and grieving relatives in procession behind them
10. Mid of procession, then zoom out to wide, AUDIO: funeral march
11. Mid of government officials in procession
12. Wide of procession, photographers in foreground
STORYLINE:
The bodies of two Peruvian police officers killed in combat with Shining Path rebels were returned to Lima on Saturday.
Authorities said the officers, along with an army soldier, were killed on Friday while searching south-eastern jungles for two comrades who had disappeared in the Alto Inkari region of Cusco state.
Two other police officers were wounded.
The coffins, draped with Peruvian flags, were unloaded from a military plane at a police airport in the presence of relatives, hundreds of police officers and a band playing a funeral march.
Shining Path rebels kidnapped 36 construction workers in a nearby town in early April, freeing them five days later.
The government sent thousands of troops to the region to attempt a rescue, which is when the two officers disappeared.
In all, seven members of the country''s security forces have been killed since 12 April in clashes with Shining Path rebels.
The cocaine-trade funded rebel band is a small remnant of the Maoist group that terrorised Peru in the 1980s and 1990s.
It is believed to number about 300 to 500 fighters and is centred in the Ene and Apurimac Valley region where more than half of Peru''s coca crop is grown.

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