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Latest fatal landslide in Alaska kills 1 and injures 3 in Ketchikan, a popular cruise ship stop

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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A landslide cut a path down a steep, thickly forested hillside and crashed into several homes in Ketchikan, Alaska, killing a city public works employee who was cleaning stormwater drains. Sunday’s landslide injured three in the latest such disaster to strike the mountainous region. It prompted a mandatory evacuation of 60 nearby homes in the city, a popular cruise ship stop along the famed Inside Passage in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. The slide area remained unstable Monday. Authorities said state and local geologists were arriving to assess the area for potential secondary slides. Last November, six people were killed when a landslide destroyed two homes in Wrangell, north of Ketchikan.

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