Mexico president: 68 missing in landslide feared dead

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Last Updated : Sep 22 2013 | 3:05 AM IST
There is "almost no hope" of finding alive the 68 people missing after a monster landslide buried a southern Mexican village after two devastating storms, President Enrique Pena Nieto said.
"There is virtually no hope that we can find anyone alive" in La Pintada, the president said yesterday during a press conference with members of his cabinet in Guerrero state, the hardest hit by twin storms that have since dissipated.
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First Published: Sep 22 2013 | 3:05 AM IST

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