Neighbors, rescuers search for 52 missing after Venezuela landslide
The search continues for 52 people reported missing after a mudslide ripped through a Venezuelan town – Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File WIN MCNAMEE
Margioni BERMÚDEZ
Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of 52 people missing after a landslide swept through a town in Venezuela, killing at least 25.
Another 13 people were killed in heavy rains elsewhere in the South American country, while four died in Central America after tropical storm Julia dumped torrential rain on El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Residents of Las Tejerias some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Caracas, used picks, shovels and any tools they could find to dig through a thick bank of mud deposited on the town Saturday.
“It came too fast, we had no time,” resident Carlos Camejo, 60, said of the mudslide.
“The town is lost, Las Tejerias is lost,
