CHACLACAYO (Peru), March 17 — One mudslide after another finally destroyed the house of Elvis Palomino in Chaclacayo, east of Peru’s capital Lima, where others are stacking...
CHACLACAYO , March 17 — One mudslide after another finally destroyed the house of Elvis Palomino in Chaclacayo, east of Peru’s capital Lima, where others are stacking sandbags they hope will save them from a similar fate.
“It took my entire house, left me with nothing,” said Palomino, a 58-year-old security guard with four children who lives in a middle-class suburb of brick houses. Unusually intense this year, the downpours have seen rivers burst their banks and caused landslides in the Peruvian Andes.In Chaclacayo, some 30 kilometers east of Lima, rivers of mud flooded the main highway, stranding hundreds of vehicles with cargo and passengers.
Nearby, 56-year-old Charo Matos was scooping water from her flooded house with a bucket, saying she was now “frightened” of the rising Rimac.
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