Thursday, November 4, 2004

Cave Collapse Kills Woman, 4 Grandkids In Honduras

A woman was killed along with four of her grandchildren when the walls of a cave collapsed as they tried to extract a special white soil used to paint houses during the holiday season, authorities said Friday. A grandson survived. The accident happened Thursday in a hillside cave near the poor farming village of La Cocala, on the border with Nicaragua 60 miles east of Tegucigalpa.

Thursday, November 4, 2004

Cave Collapse Kills Woman, 4 Grandkids In Honduras

A woman was killed along with four of her grandchildren when the walls of a cave collapsed as they tried to extract a special white soil used to paint houses during the holiday season, authorities said Friday. A grandson survived. The accident happened Thursday in a hillside cave near the poor farming village of La Cocala, on the border with Nicaragua 60 miles east of Tegucigalpa.