Guatemala landslide: Death toll rises to 131 with as many as 300 potentially still missing days after disaster

The Independent

 

Around 125 homes have been buried by the landslide that covered a four-acre area 14 metres deep in mud and dirt

• Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
• Monday 5 October 2015 09:07 BST

People and relatives attend the funeral of the victims of a landslide EPA

The number of people killed by the deadly landslide that hit a Guatemalan city has risen to 131, authorities said, with potentially 300 more people still missing three days after the disaster.
An estimated 125 homes were buried in El Cambray, a village on the outskirts of the capital, Guatemala City, when a 300ft hillside collapsed and covered an area of four acres with mud and dirt around 14 metres deep.
Rescue workers continued to pull corpses from the mud on Sunday as families began to bury their dead in the overcrowded local cemetery.
A funeral procession for the son and grandaughter of 59-year-old carpenter and painter Ismael Estrada saw 200 people walking through the streets to the cemetary. Estrada returned to the improvised morgue immediately after the service to search for his 19 family members that are still missing.

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