Chimaltenango is about 35 miles (60 km) west of the capital, Guatemala City.

Guatemalan emergency officials previously reported the confirmed death toll at 13.

Rescue workers scrambled to restore communications to towns and villages cut off by landslides after Agatha, the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season, slammed into the Guatemalan coast near the border with Mexico on Saturday.

The storm dissipated overnight as it crossed the western mountains of Guatemala but emergency workers warned residents to expect heavy rain for several more days.

Swollen rivers burst their banks and mudslides buried homes in towns and cities alike. A highway bridge near Guatemala City was swept away by the floodwaters and sinkholes opened up in the capital where many neighborhoods remained without electricity.

The intense rainfall has sparked concern over the condition of the coffee crop in Guatemala, the region's biggest producer, as well as in El Salvador, where the rains fell heaviest in the principal coffee-growing region.

More than 3 feet of rain fell in parts of Guatemala, according to President Alvaro Colom.

"Many places are cut off but it appears the weather will improve a bit today and we will be able to airlift supplies to those places. The road network is badly damaged," Colom said at a press conference.

Guatemalan authorities reported 13 people confirmed dead and at least 24 missing. More than 74,000 people were forced to flee their homes.

Three people were killed in neighboring El Salvador and 5,000 were in shelters, emergency officials said. Officials said they were looking into reports of another five fatalities but could not immediately confirm the deaths.

One man in northern Honduras was killed when his home collapsed and emergency officials warned of possible mudslides from saturated hills.