Deadly landslide strikes southern Peru amid heavy rainfall

Landslides in southern Peru have left at least 15 people dead, 20 injured and two missing, authorities said, warning that the toll from the disaster could rise. “The number of people dead so far has risen to 15,” according to the directorate of the National Civil Defense Institute in the Arequipa region, where mud and rock slides began on Sunday as a result of torrential rains, on Monday. Twenty more people were treated for minor injuries, according to a bureau for Peru's Ministry of Health in the mountainous town of Secocha, where the landslide took place.

Al Jazeera's Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff reports.

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