Hopes have faded of finding any remaining survivors of a massive landslide in Guatemala that killed at least 86 people, with hundreds still missing.
On Saturday, relatives of the victims shovelled alongside diggers through the mounds of earth that destroyed homes in Santa Catarina Pinula on the southeastern flank of Guatemala City after Thursday night’s collapse of a hillside.
“Six of my family members are missing – my parents and four siblings,” Elvin Sin told Al Jazeera.
“I haven’t been able to rest and won’t until I see them again. But asking to see them alive is a lot. They are buried under 15 metres of dirt.”
About 350 people are still unaccounted for, authorities said.
Clutching photos of loved ones, family members stood in line outside a makeshift morgue near the excavation site to see if they recognised any of the corpses