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A massive mudslide in Oso, Wash., about 60 miles north from Seattle, killed four people on Saturday.

 that rescue teams are still searching and it describes a harrowing scene:


 that 18 people remained unaccounted for, but they said the number is "fluid."


 Travis Hots, chief of Snohomish County Fire districts 21 and 22, as saying by the time rescuers negotiated the shifting mud and got to the area where they heard screaming, "the voices had gone quiet."


Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said during a press conference that the devastation was "unrelenting and awesome." He said seven people have been rescued so far and the rescue operation is ongoing.

"Today, Oso is the heart of the state of Washington," Inslee said.

 that the slide was 135 feet wide and 180 feet deep and completely covered a part of State Route 530.


 to a man who driving on that highway when the mudslide happened.


"I was three cars back, and I saw a truck with a boat," Paulo Falcao de Oliveira told the paper. "After that, I just saw the darkness coming across the road. Everything was gone in three seconds."

He said he heard a woman and a baby screaming. The paper adds:

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A massive mudslide in Oso, Wash., about 60 miles north from Seattle, killed three people on Saturday.

Massive mudslide kills 3 in Washington state

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