Dozens dead in El Salvador flooding
Updated on 09 November 2009
Mud and boulders loosened by days of heavy rain have partly buried a small town, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people.
Hundreds of soldiers, police and residents dug through debris in Verapaz looking for another 60 people missing from the mudslide, which struck before dawn on Sunday while residents were still in their beds.
Almost 7,000 people saw their homes damaged by landslides or cut off by floodwaters following three days of downpours from a weather system indirectly related to Hurricane Ida, which brushed Mexico's Cancun resort on Sunday before steaming into the Gulf of Mexico.
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