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PANABAJ, Guatemala (Reuters) - Rescuers searching for up to 1,400 people buried when a landslide swept away a Maya Indian village finally gave up on Monday, leaving the victims to lie forever encased in a tomb of thick mud.
Five days after a river of mud wiped Panabaj off Guatemala's map, firefighters called off the gruesome and dangerous rescue effort.
"We're not going back tomorrow, it's just too contaminated in there," chief firefighter Mario Ramirez told Reuters late on Monday.
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As the rescue efforts fizzled out, a fisherman in a dugout canoe found the body of a 3-month-old boy
in nearby Lake Atitlan. The baby was washed into the lake by the landslide last Wednesday as heavy rains from Hurricane Stan battered Central America.
Panabaj sat between a volcano and Lake Atitlan's turquoise waters in spectacular countryside that draws thousands of American and European backpackers every year. MORE
LONDON, OCT. 10, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor spoke out against an assisted-dying bill being considered in Britain, warning that the "right to die can become a duty to die."
The archbishop of Westminster made that comment on the BBC One's "Sunday AM" program, in regard to the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill being debated today in the House of Lords.
He was asked by the interviewer whether the matter of death is "not an intensely personal thing which should be left to the individual and not to churches?"
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