Police in Peru have fired tear gas to disperse protesters blocking a highway near Pisco – the southern town that was ravaged by an earthquake in 2007, informs BBC News Sunday.
The demonstrators were denouncing what they said was a lack of action on the part of the government of President Alan Garcia to rebuild the town.
More than 500 people were killed and some 75.000 homes destroyed in the region by the 8,0-magnitude earthquake.
But two years later Some 40.000 people in the region are still living in tent cities or one-room pre-fabricated shacks.
Only 25 per cent of the planned reconstruction has taken place in Pisco, the worst-hit town in the area.
