A rain-sodden hillside, about 300 feet-high, collapsed onto a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Guatemala’s Capital, killing at least 26 people while hundreds are missing and at least 36 were injured.
Family members have reported 100 people missing but the number could be as high as 600, based on at least 100 houses in the area of the slide, said Alejandro Maldonado, executive secretary of Conred, the country’s emergency disaster agency.
Hundreds of rescue workers used shovels and backhoes in a desperate effort to reach survivors on Friday, pulling one man alive from the rubble of his collapsed house, more than 15 hours after the landslide hit late on Thursday.
Julio Sanchez, spokesperson for Guatemala’s volunteer firefighters, said the dead, including two babies, were carried to an improvised morgue where weeping relatives identified their bodies, and families had shown up looking for people who hadn’t been accounted for. He said 36 people were taken to hospitals with injuries.
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