AP Runs Story About Panabaj
The AP ran a story yesterday about the efforts to find the remains of those buried during the mudslides. Thanks to Jimmy Byun from Penn for the heads up!
Below are the first couple paragraphs and a link to the entire heart wrenching story.
PANABAJ, Guatemala (AP) -- Many were buried while they slept, covered when a mountainside gave way under heavy rain. Guatemala's president told their families the bodies would never be recovered.
But within the last two months, nearly 100 victims of a 2005 landslide from hurricane rains have been unearthed, and Jose Suasnavar, deputy director of the independent Forensic Anthropology Foundation, said he believes at least 50 more will be uncovered by the end of March.
