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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2006 
Search on for Landslide Victims
 Gerardo Carrillo - Associated Press
| | People help in clearing the debris after a mudslide caused by heavy rains buried several vehicles on a road near the town of Xicotepec de Juarez, Mexico on Thursday Sept. 7, 2006. At least four people were killed but the search continues for more victims. (AP) |
Soldiers searched mud and debris Friday for any additional victims of a massive landslide that buried a highway in central Mexico and left at least four dead.
Thursday's mudslide followed one a day earlier that killed another 10 people elsewhere.
The side of a mountain collapsed on a highway in the central state of Puebla, slamming into a tractor trailer, a pickup and several public buses.
Officials said one of the dead included a woman whose backpack contained several baby bottles, prompting rescue workers to search for an infant among the debris.
The battered, dirt-caked carcasses of the vehicles were scattered Friday in a mud field on the edge of a nearby lake.
At least 11 others were injured, Puebla's interior secretary, Javier Lopez Avala, told a news conference late Thursday that was broadcast live on the radio.
Lopez Avala said workers had been using heavy machinery on the site recently to extract gravel, which weakened the hillside that collapsed. Heavy rains have pounded that part of the country in recent weeks as well.
Heavy rains triggered another landslide that killed 10 people, mostly children, and injured three others late Wednesday in the remote, Indian village of Chalchihuitillo, 450 miles northwest of Mexico City, Serenia Moreno, a spokeswoman for local authorities, said by telephone.
Five members of one family — including a man, his wife and three children, ages 5 to 9 — were killed after an avalanche of mud and rocks buried their home. Five children, ages 5 months to 7 years, were killed in four other homes, the spokeswoman said.
An injured woman, teenage girl and infant boy were taken to a hospital for treatment, Moreno said.
Moreno said authorities didn't know how many people were in the homes, and rescue crews were still searching for other possible victims.
Associated Press writer Olga R. Rodriguez contributed to this report from Monterrey. |
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