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11 dead in landslide

Part of a waterlogged hillside broke loose and slammed into homes and vehicles in western Guatemala early Tuesday, killing 11 people.

Sergio Cabanas, executive secretary of Guatemala's national disaster agency, said the landslide buried six houses, a small bus and a truck in the municipality of San Pedro Soloma, in the department of Huehuetenango near the border with Mexico.

Cabanas said 10 of the dead were passengers on the bus and it was not clear how many people live in the homes that were affected.

The area has been drenched by heavy rains in recent hours, and disaster agency spokesman Julio Sanchez said neighbours were being removed from the area due to the risk that another slide could occur.

Sanchez said the slide took place at 5:30 a.m. local time.

Emergency crews were responding to the scene.



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