Guatemala mudslide kills at least 19 people

A mudslide in a Guatemalan highland town killed at least 19 people, and the government said yesterday it feared more may be dead. Flash flooding pushed mud down a hill on Wednesday night, burying houses and cars in the town of San Antonio Senahu, some...

A mudslide in a Guatemalan highland town killed at least 19 people, and the government said yesterday it feared more may be dead.

Flash flooding pushed mud down a hill on Wednesday night, burying houses and cars in the town of San Antonio Senahu, some 350 km northeast of the capital. "The reports are worrying, there are 19 dead," President Oscar Berger told national radio as he travelled to the site yesterday morning.

Benedicto Giron of Guatemala's disaster prevention network, Conred, said the number of dead could rise.

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