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VERAPAZ, EL SALVADOR -- Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
A wave of floods and landslides has killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
A devastating storm that struck El Salvador was not the hurricane that roared through the region but a small low-pressure cell. It killed at least 130 people.
At least 130 people have died and dozens are missing after heavy rains triggered flooding and mudslides that buried communities Sunday and left a swath of destruction in El Salvador, officials said Monday.
Floods and landslides had killed at least 130 people in El Salvador and forced 10,000 from their homes Monday after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of mountainous Central America.
Residents of the hard-hit town of Verapaz recall a thundering roar as earth and boulders poured down Chichontepec volcano, burying homes and inhabitants. Reporting from Verapaz, El Salvador, and Mexico City -- The hill-ringed town of Verapaz is now a wasteland of fallen boulders, thigh-deep mud and broken little houses.
MEXICO CITY -- A devastating storm that struck El Salvador over the weekend was not the hurricane that roared through the region at the same time and, in fact, it did not even merit a name -- which meant little after at least 140 people were killed when rivers burst their banks and hillsides collapsed under a siege of relentless rain.
International Christian groups are responding to the recent flooding and mudslides in El Salvador that has claimed at least 130 lives so far and left another 60 missing.
Floods and landslides left at least 124 people dead in El Salvador on Monday after a late-season hurricane ravaged parts of Central America and took aim for the United States.
A late-season hurricane took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after helping cause flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
A late-season hurricane bore down on the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico Monday after ravaging parts of Central America and killing at least 124 people in El Salvador.
Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people, authorities said.
Civil defense officials in El Salvador have raised the death toll from rain-triggered floods and mudslides to 124, with another 60 people missing.
Hurricane Ida roared toward the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after killing 124 people and leaving at least 60 others missing in floods and mudslides in El Salvador.
In El Salvador, 124 people are dead and at least 60 are missing after days of raining and flooding as Hurricane Ida passes through the region.
The death toll from flooding and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by the passage of Hurricane Ida jumped to 124 people, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said in a national radio broadcast.
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