A landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca that covered people’s homes while they slept may have killed between 600 and 1,000 people, the state’s governor Ulises Ruiz said.
Severe rains caused a hillside collapse that may have destroyed as many as 300 houses around 4 a.m. local time in the town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, Ruiz said in an interview on the Televisa network.
The military is helping with the rescue and is having trouble reaching the remote rural town, located at least three hours by car from the state capital, because landslides have blocked roads, Ruiz said. The Defense Ministry’s press office said it didn’t have any information on rescue efforts.
“We still haven’t reached the town,” Ruiz said. “We’re sending machinery, army personnel, police, ambulances and rescue workers.”
The Oaxaca landslides come days after Hurricane Karl forced some 16,000 people to evacuate their homes in Veracruz state. Veracruz city’s civil protection chief, Isidro Cano Luna, said it was the worst storm in the area since 1955, the Associated Press reported. A landslide also killed at least five people in the state of Mexico on Sept. 20.
In Colombia, as many as 30 people were trapped after heavy rains caused a landslide on a road near Medellin, Caracol Radio reported today.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jens Erik Gould at jgould9@bloomberg.net; Adriana Lopez Caraveo in Mexico City at adrianalopez@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at jgoodman19@bloomberg.net
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Severe rains caused a hillside collapse that may have destroyed as many as 300 houses around 4 a.m. local time in the town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, Ruiz said in an interview on the Televisa network.
The military is helping with the rescue and is having trouble reaching the remote rural town, located at least three hours by car from the state capital, because landslides have blocked roads, Ruiz said. The Defense Ministry’s press office said it didn’t have any information on rescue efforts.
“We still haven’t reached the town,” Ruiz said. “We’re sending machinery, army personnel, police, ambulances and rescue workers.”
The Oaxaca landslides come days after Hurricane Karl forced some 16,000 people to evacuate their homes in Veracruz state. Veracruz city’s civil protection chief, Isidro Cano Luna, said it was the worst storm in the area since 1955, the Associated Press reported. A landslide also killed at least five people in the state of Mexico on Sept. 20.
In Colombia, as many as 30 people were trapped after heavy rains caused a landslide on a road near Medellin, Caracol Radio reported today.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jens Erik Gould at jgould9@bloomberg.net; Adriana Lopez Caraveo in Mexico City at adrianalopez@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at jgoodman19@bloomberg.net
http://jodnet.blogspot.com
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