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Landslide in Mexico buries 300 homes, hundreds
feared dead
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 08:09:11 AM,
DPA
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Mexico
City: Hundreds were feared dead in Mexico Tuesday after
a landslide buried 300 homes in the country's southern Oaxaca
state.
After flying over the disaster area, state Governor Ulises Ruiz
said 500 to 600 people may have been killed. Seven bodies had been
recovered by early afternoon.
Up to 1,000 residents lived in the buried area and some 100
families were missing, local media reported.
The landslide happened around 4 am while most residents were still
sleeping in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec some 70 km east of the
provincial capital Oaxaca, officials said.
"Parts of the mountain broke apart over the centre of our
community and buried many huts and houses with sleeping families,"
local official Donato Vargas told the Despertador de Oaxaca
newspaper.
The national and state governments were sending rescue teams to
the area, which was difficult to access because numerous
landslides had blocked roads. Marines, army troops, national
police and civil protection authorities were on their way,
officials in Mexico City said. State officials had also sent
rescue dogs.
"It is impossible to reach Tlahuitoltepec at the moment," engineer
Juanito Chcon said via telephone. In addition to blocked roads, an
important bridge was threatening to collapse and could not be
used.
Several settlements make up Tlahuitoltepec, which has some 9,000
residents, many of whom are Mixe indigenous people.
Southern Mexico has been hit by days of rain. Most recently,
tropical storm Matthew prompted flooding and landslides. Some 400
people have been killed by flooding and landslides during the
rainy season in Mexico and Central America since May.
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