3 Dead, 10 missing after landslide in Western Guatemala

A landslide in western Guatemala killed at least three people and 10 are missing, officials said. Guatemala''s National Coordinator for the Reduction of Disasters, known as CONRED, reported that the landslide happened early Tuesday morning in Barillas, Huehuetenango, a department in western Guatemala. The (CNN) quoted David De Leon Villeda, a CONRED spokesman, as saying that the wall of mud and rock killed three people and 10 are missing. The victims were children, ages 4, 6 and 7, he said. They were siblings. Rescue personnel are on the scene searching for survivors. The landslide buried four houses, CONRED said.