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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.
Hurricane Ida took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after causing flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
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Hurricane Ida weakened to a Category 1 hurricane on Monday as it headed toward oil and gas facilities in the central Gulf of Mexico after killing 124 people in El Salvador following floods and mudslides.
People stand in a residential area of the town of Verapaz on Monday amid mud and rockslides caused by flooding that killed at least 130 people in El Salvador. Boulders, some weighing more than a ton, littered the streets.
Soldiers and residents dug through rock and debris looking for dozens of people missing when a mudslide covered a town in El Salvador, part of a wave of flooding and landslides that has killed at least 124 people in this Central American country.
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.
Hurricane Ida roared through the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, where important oil fields are located, after triggering floods and mudslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
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.
Hurricane Ida strengthened off the Mexican resort city of Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday as the storm's heavy rains killed at least 42 people in El Salvador. El Salvador's interior minister said more victims were expected to be found as rescue workers moved into areas cut off by mudslides in the Central American nation.
Soldiers and residents dig through rock and debris looking for dozens of people missing when a mudslide covered a town in El Salvador. At least 130 people have been killed.
El Salvador's president says the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989.
The Associated Press is reporting that El Salvador's president announced Tuesday that the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989.
VERAPAZ, El Salvador (AP) – 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 124 people in El Salvador. Days of heavy rains loosed mud and boulders that rolled down the slopes of the Chichontepec volcano before dawn Sunday, burying homes ...
VERAPAZ, El Salvador — Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris today 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 124 people in El Salvador.
Hurricane Ida strengthened off the Mexican resort city of Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday as the storm's heavy rains killed at least 42 people in El Salvador.
