Peru launches helicopter rescues after landslides trap hundreds on highway

Dozens of people and vehicle occupants were trapped for six days on a destroyed highway section, requiring helicopter evacuation for rescue.

In the mountains of southern Peru, the earth moved and the road disappeared, leaving dozens of people suspended between where they had been and where they were going. For six days, the Arequipa region's Southern Coastal Highway lay in ruin, its critical sections swallowed by landslides born of heavy rains, and those caught upon it could neither advance nor retreat. When help finally came, it arrived from the sky — helicopters threading through terrain that no ground vehicle could navigate. The episode is a quiet reminder that in a world of shifting climates and ancient geology, the infrastruct

Peru launches helicopter rescues after landslides trap hundreds on highway

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