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Guatemala disaster toll seen rising

A massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud on Sunday, killing at least 22 people, with dozens more feared dead, as torrential rains battered Guatemala.

Emergency workers recovered 22 bodies from the landslide on a major highway in Cumbre de Alaska northwest of the capital, and they warned it could take two days to dig out all the victims.
 
Rescue workers used shovels and pickaxes to dig bodies from the deep mud and local residents wrapped victims in blankets and carried them away.
Recovery efforts were abandoned when heavy rain struck the region again, sending people fleeing from the rain-saturated hillsides.

Source: Panorama.am

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