Reuters reports around 30 dead at Chocos following a major landslide that buried 100 homes in this town of 2,000 in the southern Andes on Wednesday. Peruvian troops rescued of dozen of children orphaned by a landslide in Chocos, while thousands of people awaited rescue on their rooftops following flooding of the town of Ica. Extensive landslides have hindered road transportation and agricultural production is reduced because of large-scale inundations.