Mexico stops search for 9 missing in southern landslide

Mexican authorities said they have called off the search for the bodies of nine people still missing after a mudslide swept away an entire village in southern Chiapas state.

The army, navy and state police have already recovered the bodies of 15 residents of San Juan Grijalva, where torrential rains caused a hillside to collapse into a river Nov. 4, unleashing a giant wave of water that destroyed the hamlet.

But while authorities still hope to find the body of an eight-year-old boy believed to be in the Grijalva River, they have given up on finding the nine residents buried beneath a mountain of rubble, Hector Ordonez Torres, municipal government …