The quake also started fires, severed roads and cut off power and communications to the area.
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The geographical department of Chumbivilcas, for which Santo Tomas serves as the capital, is historically one of the poorest in Peru and cutoff not only geographically from thepower centers and financial interests of the Pacific coast, but most resources and government services thereof.
The rebels are also said to have cutoff electrical power to parts of the city, having taken control of three power plants in the neighbouring town of Boali.