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		</div><p>The rain-heavy remains of Hurricane Eta flooded homes from Panama to Guatemala on Thursday as the death toll from the storm system across Central America rose to at least 57.</p>
<p>Forecasters said the once-mighty storm, now a tropical depression, was expected to regather and head toward Cuba and possibly the Gulf of Mexico by early next week.</p>
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<p>The storm that hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday had become more of a vast tropical rainstorm, but it was advancing so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America remained on high alert.</p>
<p>Governments and aid organisations warned that the flooding and landslides the heavy rain generated had created a slow-moving humanitarian disaster across much of the region.</p>
<figure id="attachment_164069" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-164069" style="width: 565px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/429825C0-C7BA-4393-B9F6-3A3F7E33E69C.jpeg" alt="" width="565" height="383" class="size-full wp-image-164069" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-164069" class="wp-caption-text">Residents wade through a flooded road in Progreso Yoro, Honduras</figcaption></figure>
<p>On Thursday afternoon, Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei said a water-soaked mountainside in the central part of the country had slid down onto the town of San Cristobal Verapaz, burying homes and leaving at least 25 dead.</p>
<p>Two other slides in Huehuetenango had killed at least 12 more, he said.</p>
<p>Earlier on Thursday, five others had been killed in smaller slides in Guatemala.</p>
<p>Guatemala’s toll was on top of 13 victims in Honduras and two in Nicaragua. Panamanian authorities reported eight missing.</p>
<p>Eta had sustained winds of 35mph and was moving north-northwest at 8mph on Thursday, when centred 60 miles west of La Ceiba, Honduras.</p>
<p>In Guatemala, two children died when their home collapsed under heavy rains in the central department of Quiche, according to a statement by local firefighters. A third person also died in Quiche, but details were not immediately available. Giammattei confirmed a fourth death in a landslide in Chinautla Wednesday night.</p>
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<p>On Thursday, Giammattei said on local radio that 60% of the eastern city of Puerto Barrios was flooded and 48 more hours of rain were expected.</p>
<p>Honduras’ National Police said six more bodies had been found, bringing that country’s toll to 13. The bodies of two adults and two children were found after excavations in a mudslide that occurred Wednesday in the township of Gualala, and two boys aged eight and 11 died in another mudslide in the township of El Nispero.</p>
<p>Earlier, residents found the body of a girl buried in a landslide on Wednesday in mountains outside the north coast city of Tela. In the same area, a landslide buried a home with a mother and two children inside it, according to Honduras Fire Department spokesman Oscar Triminio. He said there was also a two-year-old girl killed in Santa Barbara department when she was swept away by floodwaters.</p>
<p>Heavy rain was forecast to continue across Honduras through at least Thursday as Eta moves toward the northern city of San Pedro Sula.</p>
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