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Seven police officers are killed and another is injured when their vehicle is ambushed in Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro, Peru, in a suspected attack by remnants of Shining Path.
2023-02-11

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Peru at 131 km of depth, killing one person and injuring 12 others. 75 homes are destroyed and around 220 damaged. The earthquake is felt as far south as Lima. President Pedro Castillo orders the deployment of relief and also viewed the area in a military aircraft.
2021-11-28

Peru reports a record 11,260 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,492,519.
2021-03-25

A coach bus plunges off a cliff on a coastal road in Peru, killing at least 48 people.
2018-01-2

Former Peru president Alberto Fujimori is taken, from prison, to a local hospital for treatment for abnormally low blood pressure.
2017-12-23

Voters in Peru go to the polls for the second round of voting in a presidential election where Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski are the remaining candidates.
2016-06-5

A bus crashes into traffic near Huarmey in northern Peru, leaving at least thirty-seven people dead and dozens injured.
2015-03-23

A 4,000-year-old pyramid at El Paraíso in Peru is destroyed by property developers.
2013-07-3

Two new species of lizards are discovered in the Andes Mountains in Peru.
2013-03-22

Two Ugandans and one Peruvian are killed and 15 others are injured in a bomb in Baghdad, Iraq.
2010-07-22