Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

Guatemala landslide buries homes and bus, 11 dead

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Part of a waterlogge­d hillside broke loose and slammed into homes and vehicles in western Guatemala on Tuesday, killing 11 people. The landslide buried two houses, a small bus and a truck in the municipali­ty of San Pedro Soloma, in the department of Huehuetena­ngo near the border with Mexico. Sergio Cabanas, executive secretary of Guatemala’s national disaster agency, said 10 of the dead were passengers on the bus and it was not immediatel­y clear how many people live in the homes that were affected.

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