Record Cold Snap in Peru...

Coldest weather in 30 years...

Severe weather in Latin America - floods in Colombia and a deadly cold snap in Peru -has left nearly 100,000 of some of the continent’s poorest people in need of emergency food assistance, WFP has said.

The worst flooding in decades following an unusually intense rainy season in Colombia has claimed at least 57 lives, with 100 people missing and 443,000 left homeless, their crops and animals washed away.

Meanwhile in the Andean mountains of Peru, the coldest weather in thirty years, with sub-freezing temperatures of an average of minus 27, has caused an epidemic of pneumonia and other respiratory diseases.

At least 70 children under-five have died and 600,000 people have fallen sick.