At least 17 missing in Peru landslide

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At least 17 people went missing early on Wednesday after a mudslide slammed into a peruvian village, civil defense officials said.

The landslide occurred in El Porvenir, a village in the northern department of San Martin in the Amazonian region which was triggered by heavy rains

Jorge Rios, chief of the Civil Defense Office of San Martin' s Regional

Government (GRSM), said that rescuers had rushed to the site to search for survivors and also provide them with humanitarian aid.

El Porvenir is a farm village whose main economic product is coffee.

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