The Associated PressAn aerial view of La Gasca neighbourhood in northern Quito, Ecuador, on Tuesday, a day after heavy rainfall caused a hillside to collapse.The Quito Security Department also said 32 people were injured and eight houses had collapsed in Monday's landslide, while others were damaged.
The storm was pounding outside when Imelda Pacheco said she felt her house move as if an earthquake had struck. Suddenly water and rocks began to pour in through doors and windows and she fled before the building was destroyed.Karen Maite, 16, is helped by rescue crews following the landslide in Quito on Tuesday.
"We shouted to the neighbours on the first floor, but the water carried away the mother and daughter," she said, standing before the ruins of her home. Firefighter rescue crews are seen as they continue searching homes and streets covered by mud in Quito on Tuesday.Waves of mud, some three metres high, carried motorcycles, other vehicles, trash bins and other debris under a heavy rain Monday night in the neighbourhoods of La Gasca and La Comuna below the slopes of the Ruco Pinchincha mountain.Residents console each other on Tuesday as bodies are recovered following the landslide.
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