Guatemalan mudslide death toll reaches 69 with hundreds still missing
Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on the outskirts of Guatemala City as the death toll rose to 69 with another 350 people believed missing.
Julio Sanchez, spokesman for Guatemala’s volunteer firefighters, said the death toll will probably continue to rise as emergency crews dig through tons of earth that buried some 125 homes on Thursday night in Cambray, in the suburb of Santa Catarina Pinula.
