A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Costa Rica, killing a teenager as well as two children selling sweets near a national park, stranding hundreds of tourists and damaging buildings in the capital.
The quake triggered landslides in rural areas and tore apart a highway near the Poas national volcano park. Some 300 tourists were seeking shelter for the night in a valley where they had been visiting a waterfall when the road out was destroyed.
Two young sisters selling sweets at the volcano were buried in a landslide and died, said Jorge Jimenez, a spokesman for the Red Cross. A teenage girl died when her home on the side of the volcano was engulfed by a landslide.
Several other people were reported to have been hurt in villages northwest of the capital, San Jose.
The quake's epicenter was 32km from San Jose at a depth of 35km, the US Geological Survey said, and caused shaking for around 40 seconds.
Pieces of ceiling fell off homes in San Jose and television images showed buildings with shattered windows and damaged walls, but there were no reports of widespread injuries.