Rescuers Hunt for Survivors After Deadly Landslides in Central Mexico Agence France-Presse
go to original August 9, 2016

Hurricane Earl wreaked havoc in Mexico, residents ask for help (Al Jazeera English)

Hundreds of soldiers and rescue workers continue to search for the missing after the remnants of Tropical Storm Earl triggered landslides in central Mexico that killed at least 41 people.

Trudging through mud that was sometimes up to their knees, emergency teams used sniffer dogs to find more bodies in the rubble and worked to dig damaged homes out of the muck.

Earl smashed into Central America at hurricane strength Wednesday, then hit Mexico as a tropical storm on Thursday before weakening to a tropical depression.

But its remnants still packed a deadly punch.

Hardest hit was the central state of Puebla, where 29 people died, including at least 15 minors, as landslides buried several homes in the state’s northern mountains, the local government said.

In one Puebla village, a rain-soaked hill crumbled and came sweeping down on the town, killing 11 people including eight minors. Some 500 families were evacuated to shelters. [Rescuers and local residents search for victims of a landslidein Xaltepec, Puebla state, on Monday. Photo: AFP]

Another 11 died in similar circumstances in the eastern state of Veracruz, its governor said. A taxi driver there also died when his vehicle was swept away in the flood waters.

In the town of Huauchinango, the amount of rain that normally falls in a month came pouring down in just 24 hours, the Puebla government said.

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Related: Priests Send Prayers, Support for Mexican Mudslide Victims (Catholic News Service)

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