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Search resumes for 11 missing in Mexico mudslide (AP)

September 29th, 2010

Soldiers, police officers and residents search for victims after a landslide Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Rescue efforts resumed Wednesday for 11 people missing after a hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico’s rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca.


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Hundreds feared dead in Mexico mudslide (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Up to 1,000 people were feared dead after a hillside collapsed on Tuesday in southern Mexico.(AFP/Graphics)AP - A hillside collapsed on a rural Mexican community on Tuesday and the region’s governor said hundreds of people are feared dead.


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Slum disappears in Rio mudslide; 200 feared dead (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Firefighters pull the body of a landslide victim out of the mud in the Morro do Bumba neighborhood of Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, April 8, 2010.  At least 200 people were buried and feared dead under the latest landslide to hit a slum in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - They are all gone. The Evangelical church where worshippers were praying. A daycare center where kids were playing. The pizza parlor where a family was eating.


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