Rescue efforts resumed today for 11 people missing after a huge hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico as a landslide in a neighbouring state killed 16 people.

A huge mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left only 11 missing with no confirmed dead, authorities said today.

A HILLSIDE collapsed on hundreds of sleeping residents yesterday in a rural Mexican community drenched for days by a hurricane and a tropical storm, killing at least seven and leaving at least 100 missing, disaster officials said.

Hundreds of people were feared dead after a hillside collapsed burying more than 100 homes in Mexico today.

Gunmen ambushed a humanitarian convoy in a remote, volatile area of southern Mexico, killing a Finnish man and a Mexican activist.