The following excerpt is from a June 27, 2010 article published by Dayton Daily News. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
…The hurricane center said rains will likely keep falling on southern Mexico and Guatemala until Tuesday and warned of life-threatening floods and mudslides.
The heavy rains prompted a landslide in northwestern Guatemala that dislodged a large rock outcropping, killing two men who had taken shelter from the storm underneath, according to the national disaster-response agency.
In El Salvador, Civil Protection chief Jorge Melendez said two people were swept away by rivers that jumped their banks. About 500 people were evacuated from their homes.
Authorities in both Guatemala and Belize were keeping an eye on rising river levels. One bridge in western Belize was swamped entirely, cutting off a remote Mennonite community. Seven homes in the Belize River Valley, outside Belize City, had their roofs blown off, and at least one structure collapsed…
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