ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Mexican soldiers dug through tons of mud and dirt Friday in their continuing search for landslide victims, as authorities looked for a federal police helicopter that went missing while carrying out relief operations on the flood-stricken Pacific coast.
The helicopter with three crew members on board was returning from the remote mountain village of La Pintada, where the mudslide occurred, when it went missing Thursday, said federal security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez.
"We still don't know anything," Sanchez said. "(The helicopter) was in La Pintada ... and then we didn't hear anything more from it."
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Search efforts continued in the town north of Acapulco, where 68 people were reported missing following Monday's slide. Two bodies have been recovered, but it was unclear if they were among those on the list of missing.
Federal police have been helping move emergency supplies and aid victims of massive flooding caused by Tropical Storm Manuel, which washed out bridges and collapsed highways throughout the area, cutting Acapulco off by land and stranding thousands of tourists.
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