B Peru as a result of floods and which proceed in the country since December of last year, were lost 75 people. The data published by the National operational center of the country on emergency situations (COEN) testify to it.
Also, by estimates of rescuers, nearly 626,2 thousand people suffered from elements. The damage was caused more than 134 thousand buildings, without housing there were about 99,5 thousand citizens.
is strongest, according to COEN, the region in the northwest Peru Pyura suffered from floods and rains, transfers the El Comercio Peru edition. There, as the Minister of Defence of the country Nyeto Jorge declared, lived nearly a third of all victims of elements.
the Government Ecuador already sent to br to Peru the plane with humanitarian assistance, the RPP radio station reports. On March 20, according to the head of Cabinet of Ministers Peru Savala Fernando, to the republic the help from Colombia, Argentina and Chile also will be delivered. by
Earlier it was reported that the climatic phenomenon of "El Niño" in the Pacific Ocean became the reason of powerful floods which fell upon Peru.