In a statement, the local government said a short-circuit sparked the fire in the early morning hours of Saturday in the southern region of Arequipa.
May 8, 2023The earthquake's epicentre was 3.868°S and 76.622°W, respectively. No casualties have been reported yet.
March 13, 2023Rescue workers and police carried out the relief work and rushed injured to local hospitals in El Alto and Mancora.
January 29, 2023Parts of the Urubamba-Ollantaytambo-Machu Picchu railway were damaged during the anti-government protests on Thursday, forcing train services to be suspended until further notice.
January 22, 2023Anti-government protests began in Peru in early December following the removal and arrest of then-president Pedro Castillo shortly after his attempt to illegally dissolve Congress, reported DW News.
January 17, 2023Boluarte while speaking in a late-night address on Friday, lamented the violence that has killed more than 40 people since December in Peru.
January 14, 2023The findings of the study, led by UCR doctoral ethnomusicology student Owain J. Graham, were published in the journal Anthropology of Consciousness.
December 27, 2022A strong team display, along with the heroics of the substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne, helped seal Australia's spot in the quadrennial showpiece, set to commence in November this year. Australia join reigning world champions France, Tunisia, and Denmark in Group D.
June 14, 2022Yotun doubled the lead just before halftime with a superb reflex volley after Fabian Balbuena failed to make clean contact with a headed clearance, Xinhua reports.
March 30, 2022The government has called it one of the "most important ecological disasters" on the coast in recent years, reports Xinhua news agency.
January 23, 2022India swept the 10M Air Pistol medal events, including the Mixed, Women’s and Men’s Team competitions as well the 10M Air Rifle Men’s Team gold, to end the day with six gold, six silver and two bronze medals.
October 3, 2021Guzmán launched an insurgency against the state in 1980 and presided over numerous car bombings and assassinations in the years that followed. Guzmán was captured in 1992 and sentenced to life in prison for terrorism and other crimes.
September 12, 2021The people on the barge, including about 20 children, were asleep while returning to Yurimaguas after a religious event, local media reported.
August 30, 2021In the hour of Castillo’s triumph, his primary opponent has been remarkably gracious as she greeted the outcome with remarkable optimism.
July 23, 2021The ONPE declared its count completed on 15 June. And yet no winner or loser has been named, reaffirming the mounting uncertainty.
June 21, 2021President Jair Bolsonaro, who has famously compared the virus to a 'little flu,' has clashed with state and local authorities over their use of stay-at-home measures and business closures to contain it.
June 22, 2020Peru's top flight has been suspended since March 12, a day after the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
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