The Guatemalan authorities are investigating the giant crater that opened up in the middle of an intersection in the capital, Guatemala City. Earlier, the authorities announced that heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Agatha caused the hole that swallowed a three-storey building, but only further study will determine what may have occurred.
In late April, another major crater also opened in the region killing three people.
The Civil Defense authorities of Guatemala on Monday raised to 113 the number killed as a result of Tropical Depression Agatha, while the number of missing reaches 54. Alejandro Maldonado, director of the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred), told reporters that 59 people suffered serious injuries.
However, the rescue team, local authorities and residents to local radio stations reported that they found bodies in the rubble of houses that collapsed and buried by landslides caused by heavy rains. The Conred report states that 111 964 people were evacuated from their homes, 29 245, transferred to temporary shelters and 21,465 are in areas considered at risk.
There are still no official estimates on the number of destroyed houses, bridges and roads collapsed and losses in crops and infrastructure. Although the rains have stopped in most of the country, affected communities have not yet returned to normality, where its inhabitants are dedicated to rescue their loved ones and to clear the landslides.
According to the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology, the low pressure system Agatha "if disrupted, may cause only slight rain during the afternoon and evening.


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