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Urgent: Nine dead and 600 missing in Guatemala landslide

Xinhua, October 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least nine people were dead and about 600 missing in a landslide that buried more than 100 homes in southern Guatemala, emergency services said on Friday.

Hundreds of rescue workers dug through sludge and rocks to spot survivors of the landslide which occurred Thursday night following heavy rains in the El Cambray II neighborhood of the town of Santa Catarina Pinula, 15 km south of the capital city, according to daily newspaper Prensa Libre. Endit