Cira Gonzalez survived a landslide that struck last week but fears her house could still collapse at any moment following torrential rains that have left 129 people dead or missing in Mexico.

Gonzalez, 44, lives in San Bartolo Tutotepec, a municipality in Hidalgo, one of three states in central and eastern Mexico worst-hit by several days of rains that turned streets into rivers and swept away roads and bridges.

She spoke to AFP in front of her wooden, tin-roofed house, nestled in mountains. It took an AFP team five hours to reach the area after traveling 19 kilometers (12 miles) on foot.

"We felt like the ground was already sinking," said Gonzalez, recounting when the landslide stuck and she fled outside in the darkness with her 14-year-old daughter.

"You could hear the stones falling

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