Venezuela: landslide turns streets into rivers of mud and water

Videos posted to social media show mud and water tearing through the streets of El Castaño in Aragua state, Venezuela, just a week after a massive landslide devastated the nearby locality of Las Tejerías. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, told state television at least three people had died in the landslide. ’I’m being informed that the damages in El Castaño, in Maracay [where the landslide occurred] are serious,’ Maduro said during a visit to Las Tejerías, where a mudslide killed dozens of people a week earlier. Venezuela floods kill 25 after month’s worth of rain falls in eight hours ► Record numbers of people risking lives to cross Darién Gap to US ►
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