An aerial view shows a landslide in San Cristobal Verapaz, January 5, 2009. At least 35 people were killed and as many as another 60 were missing after a huge chunk of mountain slid onto the road they were walking on in northern Guatemala on Sunday, officials said. [Agencies] The landslide, triggered by a geological fault, brought some 10,000 tons of rock crashing down in a sparsely populated area near the small indigenous town of San Cristobal Verapaz, around 124 miles north of Guatemala City. The victims were laborers returning home from coffee farms in a nearby department. They had apparently ignored warnings not to use the road, which was closed in December after a smaller rockfall killed two people. "The people doing the rescue are taking every precaution because there are rockfalls every two minutes," Garcia told a news conference. small rockfalls that made it impossible to get heavy machinery to the area, in
the mountainous northern department of Alta Verapaz. |
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