GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Guatemalan authorities said on Monday the death toll from Thursday's mudslide that washed away half a Mayan coffee-farming village near the highland tourist mecca of Lake Atitlan had risen to at least 31.
Five more people died in a house buried under mud in a separate tragedy on the outskirts of Guatemala City on Friday.
Fire brigade spokesman Emilio Najera told Reuters the confirmed death toll in the village of El Porvenir had risen by four. He said the bodies of three of the additional victims were found on Sunday 17 miles (27 km) downriver from the village, which lies in a valley in the foothills of the country's Santiago volcano.
In Guatemala's worst natural disaster in years, several days of heavy rains caused a natural reservoir of water on Santiago's slopes to overflow and crash through the valley, dragging large boulders and tree trunks in its path.
Most of the dead were children asleep in about 20 houses swept away by the mudslide.
Emergency workers continued to search on Monday for the bodies of six people still reported missing from El Porvenir as radio stations appealed for food donations for some 400 people left homeless.