Tag: President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Fifty bodies recovered from horrific Peru bus crash

LIMA, Peru (AFP) – Peruvian emergency workers on Wednesday said they had recovered 50 bodies — six of them children — from a horrific bus crash over a cliff north of the capital Lima. The coach had plunged around 100 meters (330 feet) over a seaside cliff in Peru on Tuesday after a collision with a truck on a precarious stretch known as the “devil’s curve.” It had been traveling from Huacho, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north […]

Shallow 5.3 quake in southern Peru kills at least four

  (REUTERS)  A 5.3 magnitude shallow earthquake killed at least four people, including a U.S. tourist, and injured dozens when it rocked a copper-producing region popular with trekkers late on Sunday, authorities said. The quake struck just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep in the Caylloma province of the Andean region Arequipa and at least five aftershocks shook the region anew on Monday, the Geophysical Institute of Peru said. The USGS reported the earthquake as having […]