Rescuers in Guatemala searched Friday for 24 people missing in a massive landfill slide in the capital earlier this week from which four bodies have already been recovered, an official said.
Municipal firemen and rescue workers search for victims at the site of a
landslide at a garbage dump in Guatemala City on Apr 28, 2016. (Photo:
AFP/Johan Ordonez)
GUATEMALA CITY: Rescuers in Guatemala searched on Friday
(Apr 29) for 24 people missing in a massive landfill slide in the
capital earlier this week from which four bodies have already been
recovered, an official said.
Recent heavy rains and seismic tremors caused the mountain
of garbage in the open-air dump to come crashing down on the people at
the site on Wednesday, said a spokesman for the Guatemala City
government, Carlos Sandoval.
The four bodies were pulled out the first day.
Almost all 24 of the missing were trash pickers, operating
with or without official permission, but a municipal policeman was also
among them, Sandoval said.
Guatemala's national disaster reduction coordination agency
said there was virtually no hope of finding any survivors, given the
huge amount of trash that had fallen.
Around 250 rescue workers and public prosecutors were the only ones
being allowed into the site, the main landfill for the capital.
- AFP/ec
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