![]() "The government is good at stealing, but when it comes to helping people they lack spark."Įddy Sanchez, director of the country's seismology and volcanology institute, said the flows reached temperatures of about 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit (700 Celsius).Īt least 20 people were injured, and authorities have said they feared the death toll could rise with an undetermined number of people unaccounted for. ![]() When the lava was already here they passed by in their pickup trucks telling at us to leave, but the cars did not stop to pick up the people," said Rafael Letran, a resident of El Rodeo. "Conred (the disaster agency) never told us to leave. A police officer stumbles while running away from a new pyroclastic flow spewed by the Fuego volcano in the community of San Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Guatemala, June 4, 2018. Some locals said they never learned of the danger until it was upon them - and were critical of authorities. "The firemen say they can hear people screaming, but they can't go to help them because the mud is blocking the roads," AP correspondent Sonia Perez said from one of the hardest hit areas. A group of residents arrived at the scene with shovels and work boots. ![]() In the village of El Rodeo, heavily armed soldiers wearing blue masks to ward off the dust stood guard behind yellow tape cordoning off the scene as orange-helmeted workers operated a backhoe. We're going to have to use other anthropological methods and if possible take DNA samples to identify them." "We're having a lot of trouble identifying them because some of the dead lost their features or their fingerprints. ![]()
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