The tragedy took place Friday in the indigenous town of San Pedro Yepocapa, southwest of the capital, when a wall of earth collapsed on a construction site, killing workers.
The laborers included teenaged bricklayers.
It took several hours to retrieve the bodies from the rubble, officials said.
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