At least 1 dead, 10 missing in landslide near Mexico City

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Boulders that plunged from a mountainside rests among homes successful Tlalnepantla, connected the outskirts of Mexico City, erstwhile a upland gave mode connected Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. A conception of upland connected the outskirts of Mexico City gave mode Friday, plunging rocks the size of tiny homes onto a densely populated vicinity and leaving astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic dormant and 10 others missing. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Posted at 8:48 PM, Sep 10, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-10 21:48:57-04

TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) — A conception of upland connected the outskirts of Mexico City has fixed way, plunging rocks the size of tiny homes onto a densely populated vicinity and leaving astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic dormant and astatine slightest 10 missing.

Rescue teams scaled a three-story heap of stone wherever houses had been successful a Tlalnepantla vicinity Friday.

They are dilatory excavating areas looking for radical trapped below.

Images from the country showed a conception of the steep, greenish broadside of the highest known arsenic Chiquihuite sheared disconnected supra a tract of elephantine rubble with intimately packed homes remaining connected either side.

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