Italian-Peruvian family dead in Peru

(ANSA) - Verona, January 26 - An Italian man from Verona, his Peruvian wife and their five-year-old son died Monday in a boating accident on the the Maranon River in Peru, Carabinieri military police in the northern city of Verona said Monday.
    The Italian-Peruvian family and some 20 other passengers were on board when their boat capsized 20 kms from the Imaza district in northern Peru.
    The group, which included Imaza District Mayor Otoniel Danducho Akintui, had been returning from a visit to an indigenous community.
    Akintui survived, but another 11 people are missing, sources said.
    The Maranon is the principal source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km northeast of the Peruvian capital city of Lima and flowing through a deeply eroded valley along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes mountain range.