Heavy rains and mudslides spread havoc in Peru

A resident jumps next to his destroyed home after rivers breached their banks due to torrential rains, causing flooding and widespread destruction in Cajamarquilla, Lima in Peru. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

Updated on: Mar 21, 2017 11:36 AM IST

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A resident jumps next to his destroyed home after rivers breached their banks due to torrential rains, causing flooding and widespread destruction in Cajamarquilla, Lima in Peru. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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A volunteer cleans a flooded home. The intense rains, overflowing rivers, mudslides and flooding being experienced in Peru are the worst seen in two decades, affecting more than half the nation as the death toll since the beginning of the year hit 72, authorities said on Saturday. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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Residents cross a flooded street using a rope. The highly unusual rains follow a series of storms that have struck hard along Peru’s northern coast, with flood waters inundating hospitals and leaving some small villages isolated. (Douglas Juarez/REUTERS)

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Residents cross the Viru river after Viru bridge at the Pan American highway collapsed due to a massive landslide and flood in Trujillo, northern Peru. The storms are being caused by a warming of the surface waters in the Pacific Ocean and are expected to continue for another two weeks. (Douglas Juarez/REUTERS)

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People try to cross the Rimac River after rivers breached their banks due to torrential rains, causing flooding and widespread destruction. Peru’s government said that 374 people were killed in 1998 during a similar period of massive rains and flooding caused by rains blamed on the El Nino climate pattern. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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A man sits with his belongings after the floods. The rains have overwhelmed the drainage system in the cities along Peru’s Pacific coast and the health ministry has started fumigating around the pools of water that have formed in the streets to kill mosquitoes that carry diseases like dengue. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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Local residents affected by the flash floods sit by tents set up by volunteers and authorities in Huachipa district, east of Lima. Lima has been without water service since the beginning of the week. (Ernesto Benavides/AFP)

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Residents wait in line for food at Cajamarquilla, Lima. The government has deployed the armed forces to help police control public order in the 811 cities that have declared an emergency. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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A child cleans her belongings at the flooded Ramiro Priale highway. In the Lambayeque region, 22 inmates at a juvenile detention centre took advantage of the rains to escape. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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Dog stands at debris of a destroyed home. The city of Trujillo, rains flooded a cemetery with the waters carrying bones through the streets. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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Residents walk along a flooded at Cajamarquilla, Lima. Even Peru’s capital city of Lima, where a desert climate seldom leads to rain, police on Friday had to help hundreds of residents in an outskirt neighbourhood cross a flooded road by sending them one-by-one along a rope through choppy waters. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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A resident cleans his destroyed home. The muddy current channelled down the street after a major river overflowed. Some residents left their homes with just a single plastic bag carrying their belongings. (Mariana Bazo/REUTERS)

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A dog stands at a flooded street after a massive landslide and flood in the Huachipa district of Lima, Peru. (Sebastian Castaneda / REUTERS)

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Aerial view after a massive landslide and flood in the Huachipa district of Lima, Peru. (Guadalupe Pardo / REUTERS)

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A collapsed bridge is seen after the Huaycoloro river overflooded its banks sending torrents of mud and water rushing through the streets in Huachipa, Peru. (Guadalupe Pardo / REUTERS)

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A woman and a child get rescued after a massive landslide and flood in the Huachipa district of Lima, Peru. (Guadalupe Pardo / REUTERS)

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People wait for a military plane at an air force base to travel outside Piura as roads are closed after floods, in Piura, northern Peru. (Mariana Bazo / REUTERS)

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A man gets rescued after a massive landslide and flood in the Huachipa district of Lima, Peru. (Guadalupe Pardo / REUTERS)

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View of the town of El Polvorin with clouds in the sky, in Piura. (Mariana Bazo / REUTERS)

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People cross a flooded street after the Huayco river overflooded its banks sending torrents of mud and water rushing through the streets in Huachipa, Peru. (Guadalupe Pardo / REUTERS)