Hopes are fading in Guatemala of finding more survivors following a landslide that has killed at least 131 people and left 300 missing.
Rescuers have dug for days in the village of Cambray near the capital, but say some of the homes they have reached are filled with water.
Tons of rain-sodden soil slid off a mountain on Thursday, burying houses.
Bulldozers were used to speed up the work but no survivor had been found over the weekend.
Rescuer reported that the smell of rotting bodies was spreading across the mound of earth that had buried the village.
About 30 people have been rescued. Burials began to take place of those brought out of the disaster zone over the weekend.
Alejandro Maldonado, the head of the Guatemalan disaster agency told the communities had been told the area was high risk and should have been removed by the local authorities,
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