Deadly Landslide Claims 16 Lives in Central Ecuador.

At least 16 people have died and several are still missing after a landslide buried entire families under mud and rubble in a mountain village in Ecuador. The incident occurred in the canton of Alausí, in the Andes mountains, where firefighters, police, and rescue teams are searching for trapped residents. More than a dozen people have been injured, and residents had been warning of fault lines forming in the area following heavy rains. The landslide comes just over a week after an earthquake struck Ecuador's southern coast, leaving more than a dozen people dead.