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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico, Nov 5 (Reuters) - At least 16 people were feared missing on Monday after a mudslide hit a remote village in waterlogged southern Mexico after days of heavy rain, the interior ministry said.

The ministry said rescue workers had reached the community of San Juan Grijalva, in the largely poor southern state of Chiapas, by helicopter and were assessing the disaster.

Local media said the landslide buried some 100 houses and as many as 30 people could be missing.

Civil protection authorities in Chiapas, a mostly indigenous state where floods already killed four people last week, said they were still trying to confirm casualties.

"We know there was a mudslide there but we don't know its magnitude," said civil protection official Alejandro Cabrera. "We are trying to re-establish communication."

San Juan Grijalva is close to Tabasco state, which is mostly underwater after last week's rain caused rivers to burst their banks and left some 800,000 people homeless. (Reporting by Miguel Angel Gutierrez and Catherine Bremer)

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