Two other people were injured in the same incident, Conred said, without providing further details. Elsewhere, two families were forced to leave their flooded home in the town of San Jose Pinula, 22 kilometers (13 miles) southeast of the capital, Conred said.
The torrential rains in Guatemala are due to a low-pressure system located south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec in the Pacific Ocean, meteorological officials said. Guatemala's rainy season begins in May and runs through November.
The United Nations says Guatemala is particularly vulnerable to climate change-related flooding because of its abundance of rivers....
The highlands in Guatemala, near Antigua, shot by Pati Gaitan, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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