In Guatemala mudslide, searchers find dead huddled together

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By Enrique Pretel SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (Reuters) - Beneath the mud and rock that engulfed the small Guatemalan town of Santa Catarina Pinula last week, search crews have found entire families who died huddled together after they were buried alive. At least 137 people were killed in Thursday's disaster just outside Guatemala City, and emergency services chief Alejandro Maldonado said on Monday at least 300 people were still unaccounted for. The Guatemalan Red Cross made an appeal on Twitter for dry ice at its provisional morgue in the town.




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