Residents of a town in central-western Peru began clearing mud and debris on Monday (April 28) after a landslide killed two people and affected hundreds.
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00:00Residents of a town in central western Peru began clearing mud and debris on Monday after a landslide killed two people and affected hundreds.
00:11The landslide occurred in the early hours of Monday when a forming lagoon emptied into the Casca River, causing it to overflow and flood the area.
00:20The sudden deluge caught many residents by surprise, forcing them to flee their homes.
00:26According to Peruvian media, eight people were injured and hundreds more were affected by the disaster.
00:32It's a tragedy, really, because it's a geographical area and the climate has not been so propitious.
00:38The etiology, still the cause, is to determine whether it's a lagoon or the issue of rain.
00:46But, as I said, the information is so dynamic that we're going to be updating it.
00:51Officials from the National Institute for Research on Glaciers and Mountain Ecosystems confirmed the overflowing of a glacial lagoon at the foot of the Valunaraju mountain
01:00and warned that approximately 160 lagoons in the Ancash region are currently at risk of overflowing.
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