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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

Spain donates 7.5 million vaccines to Latin American countries, with the first countries to receive these vaccines being Peru, Paraguay and Guatemala.
2021-08-5

A judge in Peru rejects a plea from public prosecutor José Domingo Pérez to send Popular Force party leader and presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori back to prison for allegedly violating her bail conditions over charges of money laundering and corruption. Pérez says that he will appeal the judge's ruling.
2021-06-21

A bus loses control and runs off the road on the Interoceanic Highway in Puquio, Peru. The resulting crash kills at least nine people and injures another 20.
2021-04-8

People in Peru head to the polls to elect the members of the country's congress after its dissolution in September 2019.
2020-01-26

A group of people are arrested in the Peruvian village of Muqui, located in the Andes, after they painted a wall with allusive symbols and messages to the far-left terrorist organization, Shining Path, responsible for crimes against humanity in Peru from 1980 to 1992. Police later clarified that the true intentions of the arrested, some of them students of a technical training institute, were to make a short film.
2017-07-5

At least 50 people are dead after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province in Peru.
2013-10-12

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes 51 kilometres south-west of the city of Ica in Peru at a depth of 35 km. No reports of casualties are issued.
2011-10-28

A huge glacier breaks off and plunges into a lake in Peru sparking a 23-metre high tsunami wave that destroyed a nearby town. The massive chunk of ice - around the size of four football pitches - tumbled into the '513 lake' in the Andes near Carhuaz, around 200 miles north of Lima.
2010-04-13

A state of emergency is declared in parts of Bolivia and rescue efforts continue in Peru amid heavy rain and floods in the region.
2010-01-29