Sources: AP via MSNBC
At least 37 people are killed and 20 others are injured when a bus collides with a truck and crashes down a ravine in Arequipa, Peru. 2025-11-12
A Peruvian court sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for laundering S-18 million (US$5.1 million) in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through offshore accounts to purchase and refinance properties in Lima, with the sentence to run concurrently with his earlier conviction for accepting S-124 million ($35 million) in kickbacks. 2025-09-3
The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday. 2025-05-6
Nine people are killed and twelve others are injured when a bus plunges into a ravine near Tarma, Junín, Peru, after the driver swerves to avoid a collision. 2024-07-22
Twenty-four people are killed and 21 more injured after a bus plunges in to a ravine in the Andes mountains, Peru. 2023-09-18
Peru announces a sharp increase in the COVID-19 death toll from 69,342 to 180,764 following a government review that reflects the severity of the pandemic. 2021-05-31
Peruvian authorities investigate the death of British De La Salle Brother Paul McAuley, age 71. According to the report he is burned to death in a home he founded for indigenous students in Iquitos, in the northeastern Amazonian region. 2019-04-2
Hundreds of nude cyclists take to the street in Lima, Peru to protest unsafe road conditions. 2012-03-10
Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is extradited from Chile to Peru to face charges in the killing of a Peruvian woman. 2010-06-4