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NPR Runs Panabaj Story

Day to Day, January 30, 2007 ยท A little more than a year after Hurricane Stan devastated the Mayan village of Panabaj, a group is working to exhume and identify the remains of victims buried in a mudslide caused by the storm.

Before the mudslide, there were more than 50 homes in the village. Now, the houses and hundreds of the people who lived in them are 10 feet underground. Along the edges of the site, makeshift memorials stand as monuments to the dead.


Read the whole story and see the photos here.


Big thanks to Jimmy Byun for the link!