Advertisement Continue reading the main story“He said, if his house falls down, he would go with it,’’ Mr. Vargas said. Many residents had been forced from their homes and sought refuge in government-run shelters or with relatives. Some places were drenched with the equivalent of a month’s worth of rain in five hours, officials said. PhotoRelief efforts were slowed by the rugged terrain, and where the roads were blocked, some rescue teams tried to reach isolated hamlets by boat. But those streams quickly became rivers that then suddenly became a mudslide, and Ms. Pérez, 38, and her relatives had to fight for their lives.

Source: New York Times August 09, 2016 00:42 UTC