Guatemalan Government Seals
Streets Around Sinkhole
GUATEMALA - The Guatemalan government has
sealed the streets around a huge sinkhole in
Guatemala City caused by the weekend's
intense flooding from Tropical Storm Agatha,
according to news reaching here Wednesday.
The Civilian National Police and the army
had cordoned off a 100-meter evacuation zone
around the hole, the National Coordinating
Committee for the Disaster Reduction (Conred)
said in a report Tuesday.
The sinkhole formed Saturday and swallowed a
three-storey building. No casualties were
reported from the hole, which was 21 meters
in diameter and 31 meters deep, at the
crossroads of 11th Avenue and 6th street, in
the Ciudad Nueva section of the city.
Conred staff estimated that close to 7,900
cubic meters of material fell into the
sinkhole, triggering an evacuation of the
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