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Sunday 07
November 2010 |
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Costa
Rica
Landslide
Death
Toll
Rises To
23
Rescue
and
search
workers
recovered
three
more
bodies
of
people
who died
in a
Wednesday
landslide
in San
Antonio
de
Escazú,
raising
the
death
toll to
23.
Authorities
say that
only one
person
is still
missing
and
believed
to be
buried
under
the
debris
after a
wave of
mud and
rocks
Wednesday
morning
slammed
into
some 30
homes in
the area
known as
Las
Lajas,
in
Barrio
del
Carmen.
Some of
the
bodies
were
recovered
wrapped
in bed
sheets
as they
were
swept
away by
the mud
while
asleep.
The
mudslide
was the
result
of a
constant
rain for
more
than 24
hours,
when
minutes
after
midnight
Wednesday
and
without
warning,
the
Cerro
Pico
Planco
came
down
over a
path of
more
than one
kilometre.
Across
the
country
two more
deaths
were
attributed
to the
heavy
rains,
bringing
the
total
casualties
to 25.
The Cruz
Roja
(Red
Cross)
and the
Comisión
Nacional
de
Emergencias
(CNE) -
national
emergency
commission
-
reported
more
than
2.500
people
had to
take
refuge
in
shelters.
The
weather
conditions
changed
on
Saturday,
the sun
shining
on the
Central
Valley
for the
first
time in
more
than
three
days.
Help
from
Colombia,
Guatemala
and
Panama
poured
in,
especially
the much
needed
air
support
that
created
an "air
bridge"
to get
supplies
and
equipment
to
communities
cut off
by
floods
and torn
up
roads.
Nicaragua,
currently
in a
spat
with
Costa
Rica
over the
river
San Juan
that
separates
the two
countries,
offered
help but
none has
been
evident
so far.
Floods
and
landslides
have
killed
some 300
people
across
Central
America
in this
year's
especially
damaging
and wet
rainy
season,
which
stretches
from May
to
November.
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