MEXICO CITY, Oct. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Death toll from hurricane Stan has reached 160 in Guatemala after rescuers retrieved 61 bodies from two mudslide-hit communities, Guatemala's disaster reduction body said Friday in Guatemala City.

    A spokesman for the Guatemalan National Disaster Reduction Coordination said in the capital that the toll was feared to risein the coming hours.

    On Wednesday a mudslide buried the Panabaj and Panchay communities in the Santiago Atitlan municipality, some 190 km west of the capital.

    Rescuers have retrieved 61 corpses from the debris within the past 36 hours, while 800 more are feared to be under the mud.

    One of the survivors, Manuel Ramirez, told the press that the 1,500 houses of the region completely disappeared in the disaster.

    All together, more than 200 people have been killed in southern Mexico and Central America in floods and mudslides caused by hurricane Stan.

    This year's Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, has been one of the deadliest on record, with the notorious hurricane Katrina killing over 1,212 people in the US Gulf Coast and displacing millions more not long ago.   Enditem