<span style="color: #222222;">Ecuador, at least seven have been killed and 50 other reported missing after heavy rain caused a mudslide in southern part of the country yesterday. Local media reported that the mudslide happened late on Sunday night, burying dozens of homes and injured people. <br />''</span><br />''Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso said that firefighters from neighbouring areas had been rushed to the affected site. The area affected by disaster had been in a designated "yellow alert" risk zone since February following other landslides. The landslide came just over a week after 15 people were killed when a strong quake struck in Ecuador's south-western border region with Peru.<br />''<br />''According to reports, since the start of 2023, heavy rains in Ecuador have caused the deaths of dozens people, destroyed and damaged around 7,000 homes.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The downpours have caused close to 1,000 dangerous events, such as landslides and flooding.</span><br />