Mudslide in Guatemala leaves more than 374 dead or missing

As many as forty people are still believed to be missing following the deadly mudslides outside the city of Guatemala in which 264 people have lost their lives as revealed by latest figure of the tolls. This has been indicated by a spokesman for search and rescue workers and reported in zeenews.india.com dated 11 October 2015.
The official number of people missing has been revised upwards to 374.

The disaster had taken place on October 1 in the town of Santa Catarina Pinula which is located approximately 15 kilometers (nine miles) east of Guatemala City. As a result of the mudslide, nearly 200 dwellings have been leveled.
As per report in bbc.com dated 9 October 2015 - an official investigation has been undertaken to find out why houses were built in El Cambray 2 neighborhood in spite of warnings of a possible accident. The National Disaster Reduction Commission (Conred) of Guatemala had warned as early as 2009 that there was a risk of collapse.
Incidentally, the middle-class neighborhood was built at the bottom of a steep hillside next to a river, some 15-Km east of Guatemala City.
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