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    Re: Remnant of Matthew produces torrential rain over Mexico and Central America - Landslide buries hundreds of homes in Mexico

    <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" bgColor=#000066><TBODY><TR><TD>Rain hampers rescue efforts in Mexican mudslide</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#dddddd><TD></TD><TD>Sep 28, 7:22 PM (ET)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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    Oaxaca Civil Protection operations coordinator Luis Marin said the state has seen three days straight of intense rain. The state government had warned residents south of the city of Oaxaca of flooding from overflowing rivers and opened shelters in other parts of the state.
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    Vargas said there is another hill about to give way in another area of town.

    "We are in a serious risk situation," Vargas said. "In all of our neighborhoods there are houses and roads cracked and about to fall."

    Huge swaths of riverside communities in southern Mexico were still under water Tuesday - flooding exacerbated by the passage of Karl and Matthew. Before Tuesday's landslides, at least 15 deaths in Mexico were blamed on the hurricane.

    In Honduras, authorities said four people, including a child, drowned in rivers and creeks swollen by Tropical Storm Matthew. The National Emergencies Commission said Tuesday that three adults died in the town of El Oregano and a 10-year-old child in the Caribbean coast town of La Lima.

    In Colombia, about 30 people were killed Monday by a landslide northwest of Bogota, the capital. Many were changing from one bus to another because a mountain road was blocked, but the residents of five houses also were buried, rescue officials said.

    President Juan Manuel Santos visited the scene Tuesday between the towns of Giraldo and Canasgordas in Antioquia state, northwest of Bogota.

    "The situation is very difficult," he told reporters as rescue teams with sniffer dogs probed tons of earth.

    Witnesses described a roar as first rocks and then earth swept over the road Monday afternoon. Amateur video shows the slide bearing down and scouring away the houses.

    Heavy rains in recent weeks across Colombia have triggered flooding that has claimed at least 74 lives.

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      Re: Remnant of Matthew produces torrential rain over Mexico and Central America - Landslide buries hundreds of homes in Mexico

      Mexico mudslides claim 30 people


      Friday, October 01, 2010 ? 06:08am


      The number of people killed in a series of mudslides in southern Mexico has climbed to 30, officials said on Thursday, as a punishing rainy season continued to sow misery in the region.

      In the Oaxacan village of Santa Maria Tlahuiltolpetepec, a tiny town of 10,000 where several homes were buried early on Tuesday, workers recovered three bodies overnight.

      They continued on Thursday to search for six more people who remained unaccounted for.

      Meanwhile, in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas, rescuers recovered the bodies of a woman and her two small children, adding to 16 victims already declared dead in the village of Reforma.

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