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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Collyns in Lima

Tourist plane crashes during flight over Peru’s Nazca Lines, killing 13

A Nazca Lines geoglyph carved into desert ground is visible beside a highway with a truck
The Nazca Lines are a group of extensive geoglyphs scraped into the desert in Peru. Photograph: Sebastian Castañeda/Reuters

Police in Peru report that 13 people, among them foreign tourists, have been killed in a plane crash in southern Peru, near the Nazca Lines.

Local authorities in Nazca confirmed that 11 tourists and two pilots died when the Cessna Grand Caravan crashed in Pueblo Viejo, approximately 4 miles (6km) from the city of Nazca and roughly 12km from the Nazca Lines site.

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