2024-03-11 17:24:03
Lightning killed a Peruvian guide and injured six French tourists on Sunday in the tourist region of Cuzco, in southern Peru, local police announced Monday.
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Lightning struck the group during a hike on the Vinicunca mountain, also called the mountain of seven colors, located in the heart of the Andes, regarding a hundred km from the city of Cuzco.
In a press release, local police said that the French tourists, aged 22 to 40, were hospitalized in Cuzco. They suffer from “burns and injuries”, she adds without further details on their state of health.
The mountain of seven colors rises to an altitude of 5,200 meters. The colors that compose it result from an accumulation of layers of sediment over millions of years. It is one of the most visited places in Peru with Machu Picchu, the most visited Inca site in the world.
It was only in the last decade, however, that it became a major tourist attraction, when global warming melted the layer of snow that covered it, revealing its many colors.
Since the start of the year, five people have been killed by lightning in Peru’s Andean regions, according to civil defense.
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