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VIDEO: Guatemala landslide kills workers
06 Jan 2009 14:20:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
Jan 6 - Rescue teams search for people still missing after the landslide that killed more than 30 coffee workers.

The rescuers are using shovels and their bare hands to work their way through thousands of tonnes of rock which plunged down onto the workers as they walked along a road.

At least 34 are known to have been killed and it's estimated at least nine more are still missing.

Paul Chapman reports.

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A policeman walks past a crime scene, where an attack on a public bus killed the driver, in Guatemala City March 6, 2008. Attacks on bus drivers are common in Guatemala ...



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