As many as 300 houses in the village of the Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, in northern Oaxaca, may have been buried in the landslide, the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, told Mexican television.
Pounded by incessant rain, a hillside in the state of Oaxaca collapsed onto a village early Tuesday, burying houses in mud and stones and trapping hundreds of people as they slept, state authorities said.
There has been lots of rain, rivers have overflowed and we're having a hard time reaching the area because there are landslides on the roads," Ruiz said.
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Although there is no footage yet available from the remote village where the mudslide took place, reporters from E-consulta Oaxaca, a local news Web site, have been using Qik.com, a video-streaming service, to upload video from their phones showing the damage and disruption caused by rain and floods in the region.
Qik allows live video updates to be posted online, directly from phones, and then archived, next to a map showing where the video was recorded.
When live updates are available, they stream automatically on both the E-consulta page on Qik and on the news site’s home page, next to the latest headlines.
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