Rescuers find three bodies after Peru landslide macaubusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from macaubusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rescuers digging through a landslide in northern Peru on Wednesday said they had recovered three bodies, including a one-month-old.
A landslide on Tuesday in the town of Retamas, about 500km north of Lima, buried several homes and trapped at least eight people, five of whom are still missing, authorities said.
“We were able to recover the body of a third person, a 62-year-old man,” said Lieutenant Carlos Alberto Valderrama, the village’s chief of police.
Hours earlier emergency crews recovered the bodies of the baby girl and an adult male who was likely trying to protect the infant when the landslide buried them both,
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