Thursday, June 3, 2010

Lubang Raksasa Guatemala

Lubang Raksasa - The people using hoes and axes to find avalanche victims who have cost the lives of at least 179 people in Central America.

Thousands of residents losing their homes and dozens of other undiscovered tropical pascabadai Agatha. Rescuers trying to reach some isolated villages to distribute food and water.

"This is a great tragedy," said Jose Vicente Samayoa, president of the environmental groups in Amatitlan, a city that floods in the south of the capital city of Guatemala.

Local officials in Guatemala reported 152 dead and 100 people were still missing. In Chimaltenango region, the province west of Guatemala City, landslides buried several communities in urban India, killing at least 60 people.

The spectators are curious too crowded one large circular pit that swallowed a nearly perfect intersection in Guatemala City at the weekend, also has to swallow a clothing factory but no casualties or injuries.

Authorities estimate the size of the hole 66 feet or 20 meters with a depth of nearly 100 feet (30 meters), but they still find out the cause.

Almost 125 000 people were evacuated in Guatemala, and thousands more fled their homes in the area of Honduras, the region with the number of victims killed 17 people after two young men were missing in the middle of bathing in the fast-flowing river in the middle of torrential official warning issued to menjuah of a widening river channels.

Most schools closed on Tuesday yesterday in Honduras.

In Elsalvador, 11,000 residents had evacuated. The death rate rose to 10 and the other two are still missing, said President Mauricio Funes Monday night.

Approximately 95% of this country overland transportation routes affected by these landslides, but most roads are still open, said Minister of Transportation Gerson Martinez. Martinez also said around 179 bridges damaged.

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