As Christian relief groups have continued working in the mud-stricken village of Guinsaugon, helping rescue workers dig through the unstable mud and distributing aid to survivors, officials announced that they might have found the roof of the elementary school with some 253 people inside.
"This is the first time we've seen the green roof of a building that resembles very much the green roof of the elementary school that we've been looking for," Rosette Lerias told a news conference according to the Associated Press.
"It moved some 300 yards away. It's the same place that they found some notebooks, religious texts and also some pictures."
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