Aid efforts under way after killer quake
Peru was today rushing aid to its southern cities and towns after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake toppled homes and killed at least 71 people, leaving thousands too terrified to return home amid recurring aftershocks.
In Arequipa, the country’s second largest city, dozens of homes were flattened and chunks of ornate stone architecture were strewn in the streets of the colonial centre. One steeple fell from the city’s historic cathedral first constructed in 1656 but rebuilt after an earthquake in 1868 and large pieces of stonework fell out of the other.
