A plane making sightseeing flights for tourists is said to have crashed near the world-famous Nazca Lines: these include animal figures and geometric figures that are made on the ground, but are best viewed from the air.
The plane crashed near an airport in the city of Nazca. There are no survivors. Authorities are investigating what went wrong during the flight.
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It is not the first time that a tourist flight at the Nazca plateau has ended in misery. In February 2010, four Peruvians and three Chileans were killed in a similar accident. In April 2008, five French people were killed when their plane crashed.
The Nazca Lines are one of the top tourist attractions in Peru. The hundreds of huge images of people and animals can only be seen from the air. According to scientists, the lines were made between 200 BC and 700 AD by the Nazcas, one of the original peoples of present-day Peru.
Why and how they did that is still a great mystery. The United Nations organization UNESCO designated the plateau as a World Heritage Site in 1994.