Rescuers found the body of an eight-year-old boy on September 9 who had been missing since a landslide hit a poor shanty town outside the Guatemalan capital, bringing the death toll to 10
Firefighters said the boy was pulled from a lake near Villa Nurva, where torrential rain triggered the deadly landslide. The Central American country’s rainy season, which lasts from May to November, causes deadly disasters nearly every year.
Last year at least 290 people died in landslides in the east of Guatemala City. So far this rainy season, 12 people have died and more than 2500 have been evacuated. AFP