Forty people were killed in a mudslide in a town popular with tourists in Guatemala caused by rains from Hurricane Stan and hundreds more may be missing, rescue workers said on Thursday according to Reuters. Benedicto Giron, spokesman for the government's civil protection agency, said the deaths occurred at Santiago Atitlan, a lakeside town in the Mayan highlands popular with U.S. and European visitors. "We can confirm the 40 dead at Santiago Atitlan," he told the Sonoro radio station. He did not say how many people were missing but other rescue workers told Guatemalan radio that as many as 800 people might be unaccounted for.
