Blaze sweeps Peruvian town, leaving 1,000 homeless
Firefighters in Peru are struggling to control a huge blaze that has swept through a small town in the west of the country.
No one is reported to have been killed in the blaze in the town of Chimbote, but it has left nearly 1,000 people homeless.
Jonathan Josephs reports.
10 Jan 2012
- From the section Latin America & Caribbean