QUITO, Ecuador — A minimum of 16 folks had been killed and 16 others injured when a large landslide buried dozens of properties in an Andean group in central Ecuador, the nation’s emergency response company reported Monday.
Ecuador’s Threat Administration Secretariat mentioned seven folks stay lacking hours after the landslide Sunday in Alausí, about 137 miles (220 kilometers) south of the capital, Quito. The company estimated that 500 folks and 163 properties had been affected by the catastrophe, which additionally destroyed a portion of the Pan-American Freeway.
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