Heavy rains, landslide sweep rickety homes away in Guatemala

Heavy rains, landslide sweep rickety homes away in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 26 ― Heavy overnight rains into yesterday prompted the Las Vacas river, which runs through Guatemala City, to burst its banks. The worst damage was done to a shanty town a few kilometres from the capital, with corrugated iron buildings perched precariously in the river's valley, next to the freshwater source and underneath a major highway bridge passing far overhead. “We've found six bodies for the moment, and we'll likely f…