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Villagers look for survivors in the aftermath of a landslide that buried hundreds of homes in Santa Maria Tlauiltoltepec in Oaxaca state, Mexico on September 29, 2010. A landslide has left 11 people missing in the southeastern Mexican state of Oaxaca, the latest toll from an intense hurricane season that has brought heavy rains and floods.
The news from this Oaxaca town, while tragic, turns out to be much less bad, in terms of loss of life, than reports indicated yesterday: Mexico: Mudslide proves less deadly than feared
We are doing some digging in our newsroom to see why the initial reports of the possible human toll were so much higher than reality.
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