Central Peru slammed by heavy rain

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A school becomes a flood zone in central Peru following heavy rains.

Children seek safety on top of desks as water fills a classroom.

Others skip through the water on a day when there will be no lessons.

Mudslides block highways.

More than one hundred homes have been destroyed.

A woman is left with nothing.

SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING:

"I want the government to help me, please. Look at my things, all my things are inside."

Rain is expected through next week.