Landslide Kills 20 in
Peruvian Amazons
LIMA - A landslide had killed at least 20
people and left 35 others missing in the
Peruvian Amazons, the Peruvian National
Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci) said on
Friday.
The landslide occurred on Thursday night in
Ambo, Huanuco department, some 550
kilometers northeast of Lima, affecting
three towns, the Indeci said.
Indeci spokeswoman Medaltih Sotil told the
press that brigades of the Peruvian National
Police and firemen retrieved eleven bodies
from a river in the zone.
Also 60 houses were destroyed or became
uninhabitable, leaving some 120 families
homeless, Sotil noted.
"The damage was not only in the towns of El
Arroyito, El Porvenir, and 16 de Noviemeber,
where poor people live, but also in other
neighboring areas," said Sotil, citing
"preliminary reports."
"We are making big efforts, first to relieve
the pain (of the people) and the loss of
property," she added.
On Thursday also in Huanuco department, on
the highway Huanuco- Tingo Maria, another
landslide killed at least seven people and
left several others missing in a zone known
as Cancejo.
Machinery and workers were sent to Cancejo
and Ambo to remove the mud and stone, so as
to reopen the roads blocked by the landslide
and allow humanitarian aid in. |
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