Shocking news from Guatemala!! The rainstorm hit slope area which is around 300 feet (100 meters) high had collapsed yesterday. The hill that towers over Cambray, an area in the suburb of Santa Catarina Pinula, around 10 miles (15 kilometers) east of Guatemala City, halfway caved in onto a 200—foot (60—meter) stretch of the village just before midnight, covering an expected 68 homes. Reportedly, 26 were dead on the spot including my cousin said the eye-witness ‘Dulce Del Carmen Lava Renzo Pu’.
The number of dead was increasing with relatives reporting 300 more individuals missing. Locale Dulce Del Carmen Lava Renzo Pu who had just returned from church when the ground shook said that she heard a ghastly sound which was followed by a rush of mud slid from the adjacent mountainside and covered everything 150 feet (50 meters) from her home. “Everything went dark, on the grounds that the lights went out,” said the 28-year-old. Bursting into tears after seeing the body of her cousin brought into the funeral home on Friday. “My uncles, my cousins, my nieces and nephews are all there,” she said, looking over the field of flotsam and jetsam where around two dozen relatives had lived. “Six houses where my relatives lived are all under the slope now.”
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A gigantic mudslide struck in her locality on the edges of Guatemala City leaving ash and dust. Somewhere in the range of 96 individuals were wounded. The total number of missing could be as high as 600 in view of no less than 100 homes in the slide’s territory, said Alejandro Maldonado, official secretary of Conred, Guatemala’s emergency disaster agency. As per the reports, Julio Sanchez, the representative for Guatemala’s volunteer firefighters, said the dead, including many children, mother grasping her two young babies and Quani Bonilla, 18, who played on the national squash group, he said.
Raul Rodas, a local leader, said in regards to 150 families had lived in the range where the mudslide happened. For further care, a portion of the homes in Cambray, which sits on the edge of a little waterway, were abandoned by their proprietors because of a paranoid fear of further mudslides. But however, the faces of the injured and dead people were swollen with sobbing.