A new mudslide has killed 16 people and left four missing in Chiapas, near the southern state of Oaxaca where 11 people went missing following a landslide, authorities said Wednesday.
The 16 were killed in the village of Reforma, in the town of Amatan in Mexico's southernmost Chiapas state, said a state official, who added that four others were missing in the disaster.
"Sixteen people have died and their bodies have been recovered. There are eight children and eight adults," state public works chief Guillermo Castellanos said.
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Civil protection workers and state governor Juan Sabines were on scene as the search for the missing continued, Castellanos addedd.
Another mudlside in Chiapas was reported earlier in the village of Nueva Colombia. A woman and two children were missing there, officials said.
Mexico's southernmost state -- bordering Guatemala to the south, and Oaxaca to the west -- is among its poorest, and has been among the hardest hit by record rainfalls in recent months.
Since May, at least 80 people have been killed in weather-triggered events tied to an unusally fierce rainy season. More than 810,000 have lost their homes, and the flooding and mudslides have done damage topping four billion dollars, authorities say.
