Agatha's rains caused a landslide in a precarious hillside settlement of Guatemala City that killed four people and left 11 missing, Guatemalan disaster relief spokesman David de Leon said. Most of the city was without electricity at nightfall, complicating search efforts.
Four children were killed by another mudslide in the town of Santa Catarina Pinula about six miles (10 kilometers) outside the Guatemalan capital. And in the department of Quetzaltenango, 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Guatemala City, a boulder loosened by rains crushed a house, killing two children and two adults, de Leon said.
Agatha formed as a tropical storm early Saturday in the East Pacific and moved over land in the evening along the Guatemala-Mexico border, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The hurricane center said Agatha had weakened into a tropical depression by late Saturday evening with winds of 35 mph (55 kph), and was expected to weaken even further as it pushed inland.
Forecasters warned, however, that heavy rains could continue to fall, bringing 10 to 20 inches.
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA,
Associated Press Writer
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