Lima  - At least 32 people, among them two Italian tourists, were killed and about 100 injured in two traffic accidents in Peru, police said Tuesday.

Two buses and a truck collided on the road linking Arequipa, Puno and Cusco in southern Peru, about 1,100 kilometres south of the capital Lima, police said. Twenty people were killed, among them the two tourists, and about 60 people were injured in the crash.

In a second accident about 600 kilometres south of Lima on Monday, 12 people were killed and 39 injured when a bus plunged into a crevice.

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Lima (Peru), Dec 22 : An archaeological research has led to the discovery of 277 bronze artifacts at the Archaeological Park of Sacsayhuaman located on the outskirts of Cusco in Peru.

According to the news agency agencia peruana de noticias, the artifacts were found by skilled workers and professional staff of Peru's National Institute of Culture in Cusco
(INC).

179 plumbs (cylindrical cone-shaped weights) of different types and 98 nose rings were discovered inside the enclosure No. 06 of the archaeological site of Inkacarcel that, according to preliminary investigations, was a warehouse or "qolqa".

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Lima  - Extreme environmental damage caused by mining has prompted the residents in the Peruvian city of Carro Pasco to move the entire town.

The move was approved in a meeting of residents, national media reported Wednesday. The city is the provincial capital and is located at 4,348 metres, making it one of the highest as well as one of the dirtiest cities in the world.

Residents in Carro Pasco, about 400 kilometres east of Lima, suffer from extremely high levels of lead in their blood as a result of open-cast mining of lead, zinc and other metals. The community's children suffer from skin diseases, problems with bone formation and weaknesses in their sight and mental development.