Floods, mudslides kill dozens in Peru amid unusually heavy rainfall
17 March 2017 8:28 AM IST17 March 2017 8:28 AM IST
The intense rains and mudslides over the past three days have wrought havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents in Lima.
Muddy water spilled onto streets and into homes in a new round of unusually heavy rains that has killed at least a dozen people in Peru and now threatens flooding in the capital.- Neighbors work to salvage belongings from their flooded home in Lima, Peru.
- A man wades through a flooded street in Lima, Peru.
- Soldiers carry tools to use for helping neighbors cross a flooded street in Lima.
- Evangelina Chamorro, 32, had just dropped her two daughters at school and was feeding her pigs alongside her husband when they were pulled into a landslide.
- In one of the more dramatic incidents, stunned residents watched and took out cellphone cameras as a woman escaped after being swept into an avalanche of mud, wood debris and farm animals about 53 kilometers (32 miles) south of downtown Lima.
- The intense rains and mudslides over the past three days have wrought havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents in Lima, a desert city of 10 million where it almost never rains, by surprise.
Muddy water spilled onto streets and into homes in a new round of unusually heavy rains that has killed at least a dozen people in Peru and now threatens flooding in the capital.
The intense rains and mudslides over the past three days have wrought havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents in Lima.
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