[kellyhound]

Tuesday. Multiple videos recorded on cell phones by local residents showed the houses slowly swallowed up by the slide in the capital city of La Paz, bolivia.

No casualties were reported, but one person suffered a contusion.

Three people, including an elderly couple, were reported missing by the local police. However, this could not be confirmed by the city's mayor, Luis Revilla.

Government officials ordered emergency personnel to evacuate 88 families after cracks were found in the exterior walls of some of the homes over the weekend.

The landslide occurred 48 hours after several homes constructed on a nearby slope in the community of San Jorge Kantutani began to move.

Officials removed 17 families and ordered seven homes razed after investigators determined the site was unsafe.

Revilla said the tragic incident left '380 people in a difficult situation in need of attention.'

Heavy rains early on Tuesday worsened the stability of the land ahead of the slide that decimated the homes, some five stories high, over a three-hour period.

Another two residences were reduced to rubble before dawn on Wednesday.

Geologists inspecting the site on Wednesday determined the land remains unstable.

The homes were illegally built on land that was used as a landfill site during the 1980s.

More than 1,000 uniformed agents were dispatched to the site to make sure none of the residents tried to reenter the land.

A team of firefighters were dispatched to begin the search for the missing persons

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-Bolivia.html

[William May]

The retarded photographer keeps sweeping back to the middle area WHERE NOTHING IS HAPPENING, instead of focusing on the R/H side, WHERE THE ACTION IS. If I was there, I would have slapped him on the side of the head!.