Sixteen feared dead after Mexican ‘mini-tsunami’

Up to 16 people are feared dead after a huge wave of mud and water swept through a village in southern Mexico when heavy rainfall caused a hillside to collapse into a river, officials said today.

The landslide, which happened on Monday, blocked an already rain-swollen waterway and pushed a wall of water and debris over the remote village of San Juan Grijalva, home to about 600 people. Mostfled into the hills ahead of the advancing wave.”*

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