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...reassuring. In all of Lima, only three persons had died, two of heart attacks, and only a few old houses had been toppled. As the hours wore on, however, alarming reports began to arrive from the northern departments. The seaport of Chimbote lay in ruins. The departmental capital of Huarás was practically destroyed. The beautiful resort city of Yungay, at the foot of towering Mount Huascarán, all but disappeared, like a modern Pompeii, beneath a layer of mud. When the government distributed an aerial photograph of the morass, the picture had to be labeled "Aqui estuvo...
This was the first word from an eyewitness of one of Peru's worst disasters. The avalanche had struck the town of Huarás, Peru, in an Andean valley 216 miles northwest of Lima, in the early morning while most of its 9,000 people were still in bed. Five hundred were known to be dead, 1,500 more were injured or missing...
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