LIMA - ?At least 17 people went missing early on Wednesday after a mudslide slammed into a peruvian village, civil defense officials said.

The landslide occurred in El Porvenir, a village in the northern department of San Martin in the Amazonian region which was triggered by heavy rains.

Jorge Rios, chief of the Civil Defense Office of San Martin's Regional Government (GRSM), said that rescuers had rushed to the site to search for?survivors and also provide them with humanitarian aid.

El Porvenir is a farm village whose main economic product is coffee.