The season’s first tropical storm, named Agatha, has killed 12 people in Guatemala.
Drenching rain, mudslides and floods also left 11 people missing and forced 3,000 to flee their homes.
The fatalities included four children who were buried alive when a mudslide crushed their home in San Jose Pinula, 17 kilometres east of the capital, the National Disaster Agency said.
Four other people were also killed by a mudslide inside their home on Saturday (local time) as the storm front’s outer fringes lashed western Guatemala with rainfall which the US National Weather Service has estimated could total as much as 50-75 centimetres in some areas.
Agatha is also drenching neighbouring El Salvador, where one death has been reported so far by authorities.
Hundreds of Guatemalans were in shelters on Friday (local time) after a powerful eruption at the southern Pacaya volcano killed two people, left three missing and thousands homeless.
