11 missing after mudslide hits town
A landslide hit the tourist town below Peru’s famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu early today, leaving 11 people missing and feared dead and blocking the only route into the town, President Alejandro Toledo said.
A second avalanche buried the rail line – the only route in or out of the town of Aguas Calientes – hampering rescue efforts. A few hundred tourists were among those stranded in the town.
