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58 missing after Mexico landslide

Published:Friday | September 20, 2013 | 12:00 AM
People stand on the edge of a collapsed bridge as they wait to ferry their goods via a boat across the Papagayos River, south of Acapulco, near Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico, Wednesday, September 18. - AP

ACAPULCO (AP):

Mexico's government said 58 people were missing after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country's southern mountains, where fresh waves of rain threatened.

This meant more danger for rescue workers trying to evacuate the last residents from the isolated hamlet yesterday.