Tag: Arequipa

• Monday, May 8th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  At least 27 miners killed in Peruvian mine fire

  

  At least 27 miners were killed Saturday in a mine fire in Arequipa, Peruvian authorities confirmed.

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Video of desperate mother begging to save her husband from Covid-19 goes viral in Peru

  

  A video of a mother running behind a van carrying Peru's President Martin Vizcarra and begging him to save her husband from COVID-19, has gone viral. “Mr. President, Don't go!” screams a tearful Celia Capira as she begs for a hospital bed for her husband in the video shot on Sunday in Peru's second-largest city, Arequipa.

• Sunday, July 21st 2019 - 22:40 UTC

  Volcano eruption leads to state of emergency, evacuations in southern Peru

  

  Peru's government has declared a state of emergency and carried out numerous evacuations in the areas hit in one way or another by the Ubinas volcano's eruptive process which has affected around 30,000 people in the south of the country, mainly due to the dispersion of ashes, authorities reported Sunday.