(5 Sep 2010) SHOTLIST
4 September 2010
1. Firefighters, police and volunteers at work on site of landslide which buried bus
2. Starting point of original mudslide, pan left to digger working on road below, zoom in
5 September 2010
3. Various, emergency workers extracting bodies from wreckage of bus
4. Helicopter overhead
5. Crushed bus being dragged back onto the highway
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Matilde Xam, wife of passenger:
"My husband, I still don't know anything, I don't know anything about how he is, maybe he's buried."
(Q: Where was he coming from?)
"He had departed from Panabajal in Comalapa."
4 September, 2010
7. Various, survivors, coming out of the ravine
5 September 2010
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rafael Espada, Guatemalan Vice-President:
"We are very worried seeing these tragedies which are the result of the severe weather changes affecting us. It is a high risk, we have to check the roads, secure the critical spots."
4 September 2010
9. Emergency workers, carrying out a body
STORYLINE
Torrential rains caused mudslides which have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala, most of them in three separate disasters along the same stretch of highway.
On Saturday, a landslide on the Inter-American highway towards Mexico partially buried a bus, killing 12 people near the village of Tecpan.
Then officials said a slide around midday on Saturday trapped vehicles on the same highway, and some of the people who came to rescue them were themselves caught by a second slide, near the village of Nahuala.
Rescue workers have recovered 20 bodies and at least 60 people are missing.
On Sunday, rescue crews continued searching through mud and rocks to retrieve bodies from the crushed bus, and brought the wreck back on the road.
On Sunday, Vice President Rafael Espada visited the area, and expressed his concern.
"We are very worried seeing these tragedies which are the result of the severe weather changes affecting us. It is a high risk, we have to check the roads, secure the critical spots," said Espada.
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