MEXICO CITY, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Death toll from Hurricane Stan has reached 508 in Guatemala, according to reports reaching here from Guatemalan on Saturday.

    The previous death toll in Guatemala was set at 353 on Saturday morning, when 200 more bodies were found in the mud in a village of San Marcos Province near the border with Mexico.

    Guatemalan President Oscar Berger has cancelled a trip to Spain for the 14th Ibero-American Summit because of the disaster.

    The president said Friday that more than 4,400 houses had been flooded and up to 178,000 people were affected.

    Guatemala declared a state of "public disaster" on Wednesday after huge damage caused by Stan.

    Guatemala is one of the worst-hit countries by Hurricane Stan, which has killed 610 people in southern Mexico and Central America.

    The storm has also killed 65 people in El Salvador, 11 in Nicaragua and 18 in Mexico, 26 in Colombia, according to authorities in those countries. Enditem