Three more bodies, those of a mother and her two sons, were retrieved Friday by rescue workers, raising to seven the official death toll from a landslide in northern Peru on Tuesday that buried several homes, according to local authorities.
Investigations continue as at least one missing person remains, according to the same source.
On Tuesday, tons of rocks and soil buried seven houses built on a hill in the isolated town of Retamas (5,000 inhabitants), at an altitude of 2,800 meters, in the district of La Libertad, 500 kilometers north of Lima, 16 hours drive from Trujillo. area.
The Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, who visited the region, denounced the poverty that pushes citizens to build houses in areas at high risk of natural disasters.
The site was indeed “a high-risk area,” said Miguel Yamasaki, a senior Civil Protection official in charge of prevention.
Landslides are common in the summer of the southern hemisphere in the Peruvian Andes, due to seasonal rains.
In 2009, at least 13 people, including a child, were killed in a landslide in Retamas.
In mid-February, in Brazil, more than 200 people lost their lives in Petropolis, a mountain tourist destination near Rio, when flash floods and landslides occurred, destroying in particular dozens of houses that had been erected on a hillside.
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