Guatemala ends rescue operations at deadly landside site

FILE PHOTO: A view of an area hit by a mudslide, caused by heavy rains brought by Storm Eta, as the search for victims continue in the buried village of Queja, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala November 8, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria/File Photo

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala has ended rescue operations at the site of a huge landslide believed to have killed scores of people in Queja village during tropical storm Eta last week, the country's national disaster agency CONRED said on Tuesday.

CONRED spokesman David de Leon said the decision to stop search operations was taken because of dangerous conditions at the site.

(Reporting by Sofia Menchu; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)