GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The search for a mother and her daughter whose car sank into a large sinkhole became a recovery effort Tuesday, three days after they went missing.
Late Tuesday, the government said it believed it had placed the geological generation of his car at an intensity of about 50 feet.
Mynor Suarez, a geological engineer, said he detected a variation of metals beneath the surface that they believe is the car. However, it is unclear whether the women were still inside the car.
The Guatemalan government ordered businesses closed within two hundred meters (meters) of the hole as dirt and asphalt continued to fall into the well, sending vibrations across the surrounding surface.
Angel Mario Gonzalez, the volunteer firefighter leader in the pace of the operation, said last Tuesday that they were running manually with shovels through the back of the hole towards another collapse.
But he said they were now only there to locate their bodies.
“By 6 p. m. , it will have been 72 hours since the incident,” he said. “The possibility of locating survivors is zero. “
Felipe Mejia stood with other relatives about 50 meters from the edge, waiting to hear the two missing: his stepdaughter Olga Emilia Choz, 38, and granddaughter Mishell Mejia Choz, 15.
He said his son Adolfo Mejia, who was traveling with his wife and daughter, was released from the hospital Monday after two hands were amputated that were injured while seeking to save his daughter.
Mejia said her son may simply not dare to return to the scene. “He can’t. He says he feels bad,” the father said.
“It’s been 3 days now. We don’t need them to stop. We need them dead or alive,” Mejia said. We won’t leave until they find them. My circle of relatives is not complete.
The gap opened Saturday night on the main artery of Villa Nueva, southwest of the capital. Video from the scene showed traffic along a dark rain-soaked street as a vehicle fell into the open gap.
Mejia’s circle of relatives returning from a local market where they sold clothes. Days of torrential rains in the region caused landslides and flooding.
In total, two cars fell into the abyss. Four other people were immediately rescued, but there was no sign of Choz and her daughter. Rescuers descended stairs and a crane, steel detectors and a search dog in hopes of locating them.