- Title: Colombia delivers aid to Peru after deadly downpours
- Date: 20th March 2017
- Summary: LIMA, PERU (MARCH 20, 2017) (REUTERS) VEHICLES DRIVING WITH DIFFICULTY DUE TO FLOODING IN CENTRE OF HUACHIPA TOWN IN THE LURIGANCHO DISTRICT VARIOUS OF A FALLEN LAMPPOST VARIOUS OF DISPLACED CITIZENS CLEANING OUT HOUSE MUD AND WATER ON MAIN ROAD AFTER RIVER RIMAC BURST ITS BANKS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PERUVIAN CITIZEN AFFECTED BY FLOODS, ESTHER BUSTOS, SAYING: "My house is full of mud, a rock hit my mother in her hip and she almost swallowed the water. We need help." EMERGENCY SHELTER VARIOUS OF VICTIMS QUEUING TO RECEIVE BREAKFAST AT SHELTER VICTIMS HAVING BREAKFAST
- Embargoed: 3rd April 2017 22:03
- Keywords: Peru flooding Colombia aid El Nino
- Location: LIMA + HUAROCHIRI, PERU
- City: LIMA + HUAROCHIRI, PERU
- Country: Peru
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Floods
- Reuters ID: LVA00268RLFEV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Colombia sent 30 tonnes (4724 stone) in aid to Peru, where downpours resulting from sudden and abnormal warming of Pacific waters have left 75 dead and 20 disappeared.
As aid arrived on Monday (March 20), President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said at the National Centre for Emergency Operations, that the flooding had exposed serious infrastructure failings which must be rectified in reconstruction projects.
The director of Colombia's National Unit for Disaster and Risk Management, Carlos Ivan Marquez, travelled to Peru on Monday, with 1,000 food kits, 1,000 wash kits, 3,000 blankets, 3,000 mosquito nets and 1,600 tents delivered by the Colombian Air Force.
A further 70,000 have become homeless and 246 injured as Peru's rainy season has delivered 10 times as much rainfall than usual, as the effects of the El Nino phenomenon are expected to continue.
About half of Peru has been declared in emergency to expedite resources to the hardest hit areas, mostly in the north where rainfall has broken records in several districts, according to authorities. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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