Five dead in Guatemalan landslide after heavy rains


  • World
  • Sunday, 01 Jun 2014

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A landslide caused by heavy rains killed five and injured three in a mountainous farming region of Guatemala, an emergency official said on Saturday. 

A mud flow crushed a home in San Pedro Necta, Huehuetenango, a small town 300 kilometres northwest of the capital, trapping members of two families inside late on Friday, a spokesman for Guatemala's national disaster relief commission said. 

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