Hopes are fading in Guatemala of finding more survivors following a landslide that has killed at least 131 people and left 300 missing.
Tons of rain-sodden soil slid off a mountain on Thursday, burying houses.
Bulldozers were used to speed up the work but no survivor had been found over the weekend.
Rescuer reported that the smell of rotting bodies was spreading across the mound of earth that had buried the village.
Alejandro Maldonado, the head of the Guatemalan disaster agency told the BBC the communities had been told the area was high risk and should have been removed by the local authorities,
" We have here a very steep hillside of over 35% inclination which is very high risk for the community and should have been avoided. "
"Other
factors are the river that runs at the base is eroding the support for
the hill, it is very sandy material and we also have several illegal
sewage discharges which weakened further the hillside causing collapse."
That period ended on Sunday night but spokesmen said their teams were prepared to continue to try to find the victims of the landslide.
Pope Francis and the presidents of Mexico and Spain have sent their condolences to the families of the missing.
Although Guatemala has had larger landslides, they have been in rural areas with far fewer victims.
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