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Guatemala landslide toll reaches 253 dead, 374 missing

2015-10-09 21:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: At least 253 bodies have been recovered after a massive landslide buried part of a town in Guatemala last week, with 374 people still unaccounted for, national disaster agency Conred said on Friday. After heavy rains, a hillside collapsed onto Santa Catarina Pinula on the southeastern edge of Guatemala City on Oct. 1, burying more than a hundred homes under tons of earth, rock and trees. Entire families were buried alive and hundreds of rescue workers have spent the past week trying to dig out...

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Some relieved to find bodies as dozens still missing in Guatemala landslide

2015-10-05 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Despair in the search for dozens of people still missing after a deadly landslide swallowed part of a Guatemalan town is so deep that some relatives feel lucky simply to have found the bodies of their loved ones. Families lit candles on Sunday for relatives engulfed by a mass of earth and rubble that crashed down on a neighborhood in Santa Catarina Pinula. Rescue teams have found more than 130 bodies and up to 150 others are missing, feared dead. "I feel lucky because other families can't even...

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Virginia Landfill Forced to Pay Fine for Landslide

2015-09-01 20:53:00| Waste Age

NBC12 It's not every day you hear of trash spilling over from the top of a landfill, but that's exactly what happened in Petersburg and now the company is slapped with a hefty fine. read more

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