Peruvian farmers came from remote mountains and jungle valleys to receive the exhumed remains of loved ones killed three decades ago during Peru’s dirty war.

Emergency teams were working today to rescue 30 children after a footbridge collapsed in Peru’s highlands, plunging the youngsters and their teachers more than 230 feet into a ravine and killing at least eight people.

A Peruvian forensics team has begun excavating a mass grave containing the remains of 123 men, women and children killed by the military 24 years ago.

A Peruvian judge has ordered the arrest of 118 current and retired soldiers for their alleged involvement in the 1988 massacre of peasants in an Andean village.

Eleven people have been killed and 32 others injured in a bus crash in Peru.