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Landslide Toll Rises as Construction Deaths Spur Charges and Highway Crashes Snarl Traffic

Accountability takes center stage with homicide-culposo probes following the latest construction deaths.

Overview

  • Peru’s COEN reports 12 dead, 30 missing and 6 injured after a riverside landslide sank two boats at Iparía in Ucayali, with searches hampered by the lack of formal passenger lists and difficult terrain.
  • In Buenos Aires, a 20-year-old pedestrian died when a wooden beam from an andamio fell in Villa Devoto; a national court opened a culpable homicide case and imputed the 79-year-old architect in charge as peritajes proceed.
  • In Mar del Plata, prosecutor Germán Vera Tapia charged two architects over a worker’s fatal fall down an elevator shaft, with an autopsy citing polytrauma leading to hypovolemic shock and the site ordered closed during the inquiry.
  • Highway disruptions mounted in Argentina and Peru: an oil truck overturned on Panamericana’s Ramal Campana at km 41.5 causing a full closure and major clean-up, while a trailer blockage at km 28 of Panamericana Sur in Lurín triggered heavy congestion as Lima’s municipality took over traffic control after Rutas de Lima’s exit.
  • In Mexico, a day of crashes included an ambulance fire near the Cuyutlán toll on the GuadalajaraColima highway and a multi-vehicle collision near the Panindícuaro toll on the México–Guadalajara route that left one person dead and two gravely injured.