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August 9, 2016

Priests send prayers, support for Mexican mudslide victims

A woman gestures as residents shovel to recover belongings from their house damaged after Tropical Storm Earl caused a mudslide in Huauchinango, Mexico, Aug. 7. Forty people were killed.

MEXICO CITY – A priest in the Mexican state of Puebla said parish and archdiocesan officials are attempting to assess the needs of isolated and impoverished pockets of eastern Mexico, which were hit hard with heavy rains and mudslides, leaving at least 40 dead and dozens of settlements incommunicado.

Published in International