Rains Let Loose Land Mines, Shut Peru-Chile Border

LIMA (Reuters) – Flooding rivers in Peru and Chile have ruined houses, displaced people, and turned up something more sinister: land mines, which closed the border between the two countries on Monday. Heavy summer rains, which meteorologists attribute to a series of low pressure systems that originated in the southern Atlantic Ocean this month, have wiped out crops in Peru and swollen rivers in northern Chile. Anti-personnel and anti-tank mines laid around Chile’s Lluta river watershed in the 1970s, when tensions ran high between the two countries, have also surfaced, officials said

Visit link:
Rains Let Loose Land Mines, Shut Peru-Chile Border