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A huge glacier has broken off and forcedly submerged into a lake at , sparking a 23-meter high tsunami wave which completely destroyed a nearby town.

The massive chunk of ice –termed as Hualcan glacier, it was around the size of four soccer fields — tumbled into the ‘513 lake’ in the Andes near Carhuaz, around 200 miles north of Lima.

According to the Indeci civil defense institute, 50 homes were destroyed. A water processing plant serving 60,000 local residents was also destroyed when the wave struck on Sunday.
At first, six people were reported missing, feared dead under the debris — but local governor Cesar Alvarez has said five of those have been found alive. Authorities discharged mountain valleys, fearing more ice breakage after the tsunami, which are most commonly caused by earthquakes.