Landslide Buries Hundreds Of Homes In Mexico -- Yahoo News/ReutersOAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) – A landslide buried hundreds of homes in a poor, remote area of southwestern Mexico early on Tuesday, possibly killing dozens of people while they slept.
Heavy rains in mountainous Oaxaca state brought a drenched hillside down on homes in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, a town of about 9,000 people, between 3 and 4 a.m.
Cipriano Gomez, a municipal official, said seven people had died, but rescue workers had not yet been able to recover any bodies as they struggled to use heavy machinery on rain-soaked, unstable terrain.
He said 128 people were missing. "We don't know where they are. There are a number of different landslides."
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