2 People Drowned by Abnormally High Waves in Peru After Tonga Volcano

2 People Drowned by Abnormally High Waves in Peru After Tonga Volcano
A flooded car in Pisco, Peru, on Jan. 15, 2022, in a still from a video. Pisco te informa via Reuters/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
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LIMA—Two people drowned off a beach in northern Peru, the local civil defense authority reported on Sunday, after unusually high waves were recorded in several coastal areas following Saturday’s eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.

The death of two people by drowning occurred on Saturday on a beach located in the Lambayeque region, Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci) said in a statement.