Floods in Bolivia and Peru have left at least 64 people dead and thousands under water in recent weeks, authorities in both Andean countries said Wednesday according to DPA. Areas in the remote Amazon Rainforest were particularly badly affected by the rain and the situation in the Bolivian Amazonian town of Trinidad was dramatic. After a dam broke, 80 per cent of the town of 90,000 people north- east of La Paz was under water, Bolivian media reported Wednesday. Elsewhere in the country, some 47,000 people were said to be affected by the floods, and the Bolivian government has requested 10 million dollars in international aid. There is a shortage of food and drinking water, medicine and construction materials for emergency accommodation, Bolivian media said, citing UN representative Vitoria Ginja in La Paz.
