A new landslide in southern Mexico has killed at least 16 people, local officials say.
A hillside collapsed after a torrential rain in the town of Amatan, in the state of Chiapas.In a Twitter message, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said the government was sending rescue teams to the scene.
Eleven people are still missing in the neighbouring state of Oaxaca, where a landslide buried several houses on Tuesday.
Local authorities originally said a collapsed hillside had engulfed hundreds of houses in the town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, raising fears of many deaths.
But they later dramatically scaled back the number of people believed to be buried under tons of rock and mud.

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