VIDEO: Watch: Aerial footage of the site of a deadly landslide in Ecuador

Aerial footage of rescuers and local residents searching for more than 60 people missing after a landslide triggered by months of heavy rain killed at least seven people in southern Ecuador.

Dozens of homes were buried when a massive landslide swept through an Andean community in central Ecuador, burying dozens of homes, killing at least seven people and sending rescuers on a frantic search for survivors, reports said. authorities on Monday.

Earlier in the day, officials had reported 16 dead, but President Guillermo Lasso raised the confirmed toll to seven as he arrived on Monday evening at the scene of the disaster in Alausí, about 300 kilometers south of the capital. , Quito. Authorities also raised the number of missing people to 62.