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A landslide and falling rocks have closed the road between El Loarque and Mateo, disrupting traffic in the area.

City authorities and disaster officials launched a technical investigation into a hillside collapse on the Tegucigalpa ring road that killed three workers and damaged warehouses, aiming to determine the cause and prevent similar disasters.

Authorities recovered the body of accountant Félix Núñez in the Loarque area, bringing the death toll to two from a collapse on Tegucigalpa's peripheral ring road.

Firefighters recovered the body of a third person killed in a major landslide in southern Tegucigalpa.

Rescue crews searching for four missing people after the Loarque hillside collapse — which brought down more than 20,000 cubic meters of debris, of which only about 5,000 have been removed — may suspend operations tonight if rain develops, the fire chief warned.

A security guard who witnessed a building collapse in the Loarque sector of Tegucigalpa that buried part of a business recounted the harrowing moments of the incident.

Relatives of Karen Girón are waiting for word as search teams continue operations at the site of a structure collapse along Tegucigalpa's ring road (anillo periférico).

The chief of Honduras's fire service warned that rainfall in the coming hours could force suspension of rescue and evaluation work at a landslide on Tegucigalpa's Anillo Periférico, as ground moisture risks further collapse and endangers rescue teams and nearby structures.

Firefighters and multiple rescue teams are searching for two people, including a woman who arrived early for work, buried when a hillside gave way onto a warehouse and triggered a fire.