MEXICO CITY, Sept 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Rescuers searched for at least four people missing near Mexico City after a hillside collapsed on Friday, bringing huge boulders crashing down on homes, authorities said .
“It’s a tragedy,” said Raciel Perez, mayor of Tlalnepantla just outside the capital.
Two very large boulders tumbled down the hillside and buried three houses under a pile of rubble, he said.
Heavy machinery included a digger was sent to the site to remove the rubble and residents were evacuated from nearby homes, authorities said.
Images published by the mayor’s office showed emergency workers climbing rubble and boulders piled up as high as a three-storey house.
The landslide followed heavy rain in central Mexico and a 7.1-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday near the Pacific coast that shook the capital and surrounding areas. — NNN-AGENCIES
