Sixteen feared missing in Mexico mudslide

Civil protection authorities in Chiapas, a mostly indigenous state where floods already killed four people last week, said they were still trying to confirm casualties.

"We know there was a mudslide there but we don`t know its magnitude," said civil protection official Alejandro Cabrera. "We are trying to re-establish communication."

San Juan Grijalva is close to Tabasco state, which is mostly underwater after last week`s rain caused rivers to burst their banks and left some 800,000 people homeless, Reuters reported.