Oil cleanup crews replace bathers on Peru beaches; While floods damage Machu Picchu

Ancon, Peru (AFP) Jan 21, 2022

At Miramar Beach in Peru's popular resort of Ancon, there are no bathers despite the summer heat. Instead, it teems with workers in coveralls cleaning up an oil spill. Almost a million liters (264,000 gallons) of crude spilled into the sea on Saturday when a tanker was hit by waves while offloading at La Pampilla refinery in Ventanilla, 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Lima. Its owner,