The World - News from April 10, 1985
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A landslide in a Peruvian Andean village killed at least 16 people. Fifty were missing and 60 houses were destroyed. Authorities said tons of mud and rock crashed through Colcabamba, about 250 miles southeast of Lima, as villagers slept. Acres of farmland were buried in the mud. Civil defense spokesmen said the slide was caused by torrential rain.
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