WORLD IN BRIEF : PERU : Feared Dead After Mud Buries Village
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
At least 50 people were missing and feared dead after an avalanche of mud and rock swept down a ravine and buried a Peruvian jungle village, officials said. But police said that as many as 200 people were unaccounted for, judging from survivors’ reports of missing relatives and neighbors. Rescuers pulled 11 bodies from the mud in the village of San Miguel de Rio Mayo. At least 83 homes were swept away.
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