1,400 dead in mudslide

AN estimated 1,400 people were killed by a mudslide in the Guatemalan highland village of Panabaj that had been triggered by torrential rains from Hurricane Stan, a fire brigade spokesman said overnight."There are no survivors here. It happened more than 48 hours ago.

They are dead," spokesman Mario Cruz said.

He said a landslide that engulfed the village on Wednesday had buried 1,400 people in the mud, in places 12 metres thick.

Large swathes of land in Central America and Mexico were flooded and dozens of mountain villages hit by mudslides after days of heavy rains from Stan.

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