Six people have died in El Salvador and Guatemala amid heavy rains soaking Central America since the weekend.

In El Salvador, the hardest hit country so far, three people died yesterday in a landslide triggered by floods in the western district of Tacuba, in the department of Ahuachapan.

Those deaths follow a previous fatality recorded on Sunday after a tree and a pole fell on a car that was traveling on a highway in the capital.

Rains have been slamming both countries since Saturday.