Death toll in Peru mudslide

AT least 11 Peruvians have been killed and 10 more are missing after a mudslide slammed into a village in a mountainous jungle region, officials say. Those killed include five children, Ronald Garcia, the provincial mayor, said. The avalanche of mud and rocks swept away 24 homes when it crashed into the village of El Porvenir, in the northern department of San Martin, at dawn. The head of Peru’s Civil Defence Institute, Alfredo Murgueytio, told the daily El Comercio that rescuers pulled 11 bodies from the rubble, and that 10 people were still missing.