Rescuer
Workers Menaced By
Mudslides After Quake
Rescue workers with dogs
were threatened by
mudslides on Sunday as
they searched among
collapsed houses for
survivors of Thursday's
6.2 earthquake.
Sniffer dogs stumbled
through rubble around
the village of Cinchona,
on the flank of the Poás
Volcano, where rescuers
believe more victims may
be found in a restaurant
crushed by a landslide.
"We think there are two
people in this house, so
we're going to cut
through the roof and dig
to see what we can
find," said rescuer
Andres Madrigal, who
later recovered the
bodies of two small
children and a woman
from the house.
Authorities visited
shelters crammed with
hundreds of Costa Ricans
in the hopes of
narrowing a list of
missing people.
Daily rain has added to
the danger of more
landslides, said the
Comision Nacional de
Emergencias (CNE). |
