LIMA, Dec 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 12 people, including three children, died in a landslide at a river port in central Peru Monday, and 30 were reported missing, officials said.
The landslide submerged a boat with about 50 passengers on board, and another with none, as they were docked at the port of Iparia in the Amazon jungle region of Ucayali, according to a police report cited by the Andina news agency.
Six people were injured, it added, and a search and rescue operation was underway at the start of the Peruvian rainy season.
Without giving a toll, Peru’s COEN national emergency operations centre said on X that tragedy struck at dawn due to “erosion” of the bank of the Ucayali river.
It said the navy has been called in to help. — NNN-AGENCIES