Victims buried by ’05 landslide found
Within the last two months, nearly 100 victims of a 2005 landslide have been unearthed in Guatemala, and Jose Suasnavar, deputy director of the independent Forensic Anthropology Foundation, believes at least 50 more will be uncovered by the end of March.
Rains triggered by Hurricane Stan inundated Guatemala in October 2005, killing at least 800 people. The worst-hit area was around the small lakeside town of Panabaj, where at least 250 were buried by a landslide.
Many victims were found perfectly conserved, their bodies still wrapped in the sheets they were sleeping in at the time of the landslide.
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