At least 26 people are dead and many more are missing after a
massive landslide covered much of a town in Guatemala.
The rain-soaked
side of a hill crashed down onto El Cambray, burying dozens of homes, said
National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction, Alejandro Maldonado.
Dozens of rescue
workers and volunteers searched all day Friday in the mud and debris for
survivors and victims.
"The figure
we are using as potentially missing -- and I want to emphasize that this is an
estimate -- is of 600 people missing," Maldonado said. Many people in El
Cambray did not heed a warning to evacuate, he said.
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