COLLAPSED roads and highway bridges complicated rescue efforts in Guatemala yesterday after Tropical Storm Agatha drenched Central America, burying homes under mud and killing at least 179 people.

Flooding and landslides from the season’s first tropical storm have killed at least 150 people and left thousands homeless in Central America, officials said today.

A week of mudslides and flooding have left more than 500 people dead and another 337 missing across Guatemala, federal emergency officials said today, dramatically raising the previous death toll.

After 12 hours of bone-jarring waves and skin-scorching sun and salt, Rolando Linares might pull enough fish from the Pacific to buy two gallons of petrol.