Video captures deadly landslide in Peru
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A landslide in the Ayacucho region of Peru kills at least two people, buries a truck and covers parts of a highway.
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(REUTERS) - A hillside gave way next to a road nearly 300km east of Lima, with heavy rain sending a landslide of mud into the valley below.
Officials say at least two people were killed.
Rescue workers say they found one body and were trying to recover the other one.
A truck caught in the flow of mud was pushed off the road. Parts of a highway were also buried neaby
Such incidents are not uncommon in rural Peru, where landslides and avalanches kill dozens of people and destroy hundreds of homes every year.
