Number of Missing in Ecuador Landslide Falls to Six, Death Toll 24

People, soldiers, and rescue workers help with clean-up operations after torrential rains caused a landslide, sending mud and rocks down on residences and affecting electricity provision, in Quito, Ecuador, on Feb. 1, 2022. Johanna Alarcon/Reuters

QUITO—The mayor of Ecuador’s capital Quito revised the number of people missing after a landslide on Monday night from 12 to 6, although rescue work was still going on, while the death toll stood at 24.

Ecuador’s worst rains in nearly two decades overwhelmed a dam near the working class neighborhoods of La Gasca and La Comuna, sending mud and rocks down on residences and streets.