MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Death toll from violent eviction actions by government security forces in a private estatein south Guatemala grew to 10 after a peasant's body was found on Friday, said reports reaching here from Guatemala City, capital ofthe Central American country.

    The body of the peasant was found floating in a lagoon inside the recovered Nueva Vista rural estate in the department of Retalhuleu, 230 kilometers southwest of the Guatemalan capital, said the report.

    Seven peasants and three police agents died on July 31 when the security forces used violence in trying to evicting the peasants, who had occupied the estate for over a year.

    The authorities insisted that the peasants opened fire with high-caliber arms on the agents, while the peasants said the policemen fired indiscriminately on them and burned their houses.

    Ombudsman Sergio Morales, a local official, told the press thatas 39 individuals remained missing, the number of peasants killed in the clash is likely to rise.

    Twenty-five of the 39 missing peasants were children, he said. Enditem