Slide toll hits 69, 350 believed missing

Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on Saturday as an official said the death toll had risen to 69 with a further 350 people believed missing.

Julio Sanchez, a spokesman for Guatemala’s volunteer firefighters, said the death toll would probably continue to rise as emergency crews dig through tons of earth that buried about 125 homes Thursday in Cambray. Earlier estimates had said 600 people could be missing.