A tractor removes the debris caused by a landslide in El Placer, Ecuador, Monday, June 17, 2024. Banos firefighters rescue the body of a person who died in a landslide in El Placer Ecuador, Monday, June 17, 2024. Bodies of those who died in landslides lie in bags in El Placer, Ecuador, Monday, June 17, 2024. Residents carry coffins of those who died in landslides in El Placer, Ecuador, Monday, June 17, 2024.
Ecuador’s Risk Management office said in a press release that besides the eight confirmed deaths, 11 others were missing and 22 more were injured. “Pain, sadness, resignation for the family,” one resident, Edgar Paredes, said in describing the loss of his son in the landslide.
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