Mexico City  - A mudslide on a mountain road in south-eastern Mexico killed at least two people and some 20 others remained missing, state authorities said in Oaxaca.

"So far two dead bodies have been recovered," Oaxaca Civil Protection official Luis Zarate told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "We are talking of some 20 people
(missing), but we have no further details yet."

The mud buried a truck carrying construction materials and two passenger vans, Zarate said.

Five people, including a 6-year-old boy, have been rescued alive with injuries, according to preliminary reports.

The mudslide happened along the road from Huautla de Jimenez to Tuxtepec, near the border of Oaxaca and the states of Puebla and Veracruz. (dpa)