Overview
- In Cusco’s Cercado, part of a clandestine construction on a hillside collapsed near midday Saturday, leaving one worker dead and another injured, according to the fire department.
- The injured man, identified as Mateo Velázquez Mamani, 50, was taken to a hospital as crews warned of ongoing risk to a cracked adjoining adobe home.
- Municipal Civil Defense said the work occupied a designated green area without authorization and pointed to humid, unstable terrain as a contributing factor.
- In Piura’s historic center a day earlier, CCTV captured a concrete block collapsing into an excavation and trapping 50-year-old Esteban Paredes, who was freed by a backhoe and hospitalized in stable condition.
- Residents called for tighter controls on reconstruction sites, and a local outlet identified Corporación Diamante Jubers S.A.C. as handling the rehabilitation work in Piura.