The death toll from a mudslide on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital has climbed to 152, as rescue workers recover more bodies from a hillside.<\/p>\n
The development came late Monday, with chief of emergency services Alejandro Maldonado saying that at least 300 people were still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
The landslide, which was triggered by torrential rains, happened in the Cambray neighborhood in Guatemala City\u2019s suburb of Santa Catarina Pinula on October 1.<\/p>\n
Search crews have found entire families who died huddled together and buried alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found almost all of them huddled together, which means that they were going to try and evacuate but sadly they didn\u2019t have time,\u201d Sergio Cabanas, an official at Guatemala\u2019s National Disaster Reduction Commission, known as the Conred, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome died from the impact, some from asphyxiation and some… from heart attacks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The Conred has now declared the area uninhabitable.<\/p>\n
So far, no survivors have been found at the site, and rescue workers say it is unlikely to find anyone alive under the 120,000 tons of earth that buried the area. However, the search teams pledged to keep up the search.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur determination to continue is firm. We\u2019re not going to stop until we finish the job. The objective is that nobody is left buried at the site,\u201d Maldonado said.<\/p>\n
Funerals have been held for dozens of the victims while many families are still waiting to identify their loved ones at a makeshift morgue.<\/p>\n
The mudslide was one of the worst in years to hit the Latin American country. Some 30 people lost their lives and 9,000 homes were damaged in incidents related to heavy rainfall during last year\u2019s rainy season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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