Guatemala resumes flood rescue work
September 6, 2010
Rescue efforts have resumed in flood-stricken Guatemala, while forecasters predict more rain which officials say may hamper search and rescue operations. A brief window of good weather on Monday allowed the search for victims and surviors of the worst flooding the country has seen in 60 years. At least 44 people have been killed, and 16 others were still missing after a series of landslides, mudslides and wall collapses that followed weeks of heavy rain in the impoverished and mountainous Central American nation. There are “43,043 people at risk, 11,495 have been evacuated, 9,160 are in shelters and 56 people have been injured,” according to a statement…
