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We have no money. We would like to go back but we can't because we don't have any money.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Rosa Chaupe, trapped by flood damage\u003cbr/\u003eMuch of Peru's transport infrastructure now stands in near ruins.\u003cbr/\u003eThose who must travel do so often by foot. \u003cbr/\u003eMany who attempt the one-thousand kilometre (600 mile) journey from Lima to Tumbes, in the north, will take at least five days.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is a nightmare journey.\u003cbr/\u003eWhole cargoes of perishable goods spoil in the heat and delay, costing the wholesalers up to three-thousand U-S dollars per lorry load. \u003cbr/\u003eThose who venture along less well used routes run the high risk of accidents.\u003cbr/\u003eMany caught in this devastation complain of privateering, even by state owned rescue operations. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I got stuck trying to cross the river and they would not help me out with their machine.  They said that if you have money to pay they would pull the lorry out.  But I didn't have any money.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Voxpop, Truck driver\u003cbr/\u003eScientists say that El Nino is now on the retreat. \u003cbr/\u003eThe forecast for April is rain but not on the same devastating scale which wiped entire bridges such as the one which once stood here away. In Piura, the good news has come too late for many.\u003cbr/\u003eLast week, this battered town in the grip of severe flooding, reported 30 lives had been lost after a main bridge collapsed. \u003cbr/\u003eThe men, women and children were crossing in cars or on foot when the structure fell apart.\u003cbr/\u003eThe street lights mark where the ruins still lie. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Spanish)\u003cbr/\u003e\"What I need is, please, for them to do everything possible as quickly as possible, to look for all everyone (drowned).  Because the authorities are so behind.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Voxpop, Relative of flood victim\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Spanish)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Already four days since Monday, they still don't know anything (of my son).\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Voxpop, Relative of flood victim\u003cbr/\u003eThis photograph shows the son signing his marriage certificate.\u003cbr/\u003eRescue attempts continue to locate the bodies of those swept away. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Spanish)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Nine bodies, of which only one has yet to be identified.  The rest have been identified.  Currently we have three bodies here of which two have been identified and certified as identified and also one has yet to be given its death certificate according to the appropriate procedure according to the attorney.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Oscar Huaman, medical forensic scientist\u003cbr/\u003eThe Centre for the Prevention of Disaster estimates 296 deaths as a result of this year's El Nino. \u003cbr/\u003eIt claims a further 730 injured, 325-floods, 28-thousand homes destroyed and 102-thousand affected by the phenomenon.\u003cbr/\u003ePeru is not yet out of danger. \u003cbr/\u003eDespite government steps last year to prevent disaster the cost of this year's El Nino may yet go higher.\u003cbr/\u003eTrujillo, Chiclayo, Piura, Peru - 17-21 March 1998\u003cbr/\u003eFrom Lima to Trujillo\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan of trucks trapped in traffic jam\u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium shot of women sorting out rotten vegetables \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot of women sorting through vegetables \u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot of man chucking away rotten tomatoes\u003cbr/\u003e5. Zoom out of rescue vehicles in flood water \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rosa Chaupe, trapped by flood damage\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide shot of people crossing flood waters river on foot\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid shot of people in flood waters\u003cbr/\u003eFrom Trujillo to Chiclayo\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid shot of people emptying lorry in floodwater of stock \u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide shot of trapped lorry in water\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot of rescue vehicle and flooded countryside \u003cbr/\u003e12. Zoom out from lorry buried in sand \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Truck driver\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide shot of lorry buried in sand \u003cbr/\u003e15. Two men pulling private cart across floodwaters\u003cbr/\u003e16. Zoom in to bank of river which has swept away the bridge\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pan of destroyed road\u003cbr/\u003ePiura \u003cbr/\u003e18. Zoom out of people by flooded river where bridge once stood \u003cbr/\u003e19. Medium shot of street lamps almost submerged under floodwater\u003cbr/\u003e20. Rescue boat on river \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Relative of flood victim\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop, Relative of flood victim\u003cbr/\u003e23. Photograph of his son signing marriage certificate\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid shot of rescue operation headquarters    \u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid shot of woman crying for flood victim\u003cbr/\u003e26. Various of helicopter with retrieved bodies from flood accident \u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oscar Huaman, medical forensic scientist\u003cbr/\u003e28. 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