http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/9616642/At-least-11-killed-as-mudslide-engulfs-small-village-in-Peru.html
Local sources report that at least 10 are dead...and 11 are still missing after a landslide in the village of El Porvenir...in San Martin province.
Police report that 12 homes were swept away in the mountainous jungle region...with at least 6 children dead...and whole families missing.
Some 200 families live in the village that has suffered heavy rains for weeks.
AND: LATEST En ESP:
http://elcomercio.pe/actualidad/1484737/noticia-huaico-san-martin-ejercito-tendera-puente-aereo-hacia-porvenir
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