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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.
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.
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.
VERAPAZ, El Salvador — Tears streamed down Elsy Portillo’s badly bruised face as she walked Monday behind coffins carrying her mother and only child in this town buried by a massive landslide, one of a series that killed at least 134 people nationwide.
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.
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.
So far this season there have only three hurricanes have churned in the ocean. The third, what was Hurricane Ida is now a tropical storm. But not before ripping through Central America. The hardest hit area, El Salvador was pounded with flooding and landslides.
Rescue workers combed through mud, rubble and debris in search of survivors from raging floods and landslides that killed at least 136 people, after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of Central America.
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.
Tears streamed down Elsy Portillo's badly bruised face Monday as she walked behind coffins carrying her mother and only child in this town buried by a landslide, one in a series that killed at least 130 people in El Salvador.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 9 / Christian Newswire / -- Lutheran World Relief has committed funds to respond to flooding and mudslides in El Salvador. The disaster, caused by heavy rains for the last several days, has claimed 124 lives, with dozens of people still missing.
A series of landslides has devastated a town in El Salvador, claiming at least 130 lives over the weekend.
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.
San Salvador - The sky above Salvadoran capital El Salvador appeared clear Tuesday: a radiant sun shone to dry the remnants of a weekend of weather chaos that changed whole landscapes. Police chief Carlos Ascensio con...
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