Rains caused new deaths in El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR (AP).— Torrential rains that continue to batter El Salvador claimed six more lives Friday, bringing the death toll to 19.

Yesterday, two girls and four adults were reported dead in their homes due to wall collapses and landslides.

The death of the two girls, aged seven and five, was confirmed by the Rescue Commands and the Civil Protection Directorate, which alerted the population of the risk of water accumulation that can cause the collapse of walls and landslides.

According to the official report, a wall collapsed on the house where the girls were and following several hours of work their lifeless bodies were recovered. Their parents were rescued alive and taken to a local hospital on the outskirts of San Salvador.

Civil Protection also reported that two elderly people were buried “due to the collapse of a wall on their home following heavy rains” in a rural area of ​​the Panchimalco district, south of the capital.

It was also confirmed that two other people died when another wall collapsed in their home in a rural area of ​​Planes de Renderos, also on the outskirts of the city.

In recounting the incidents, the director of Civil Protection, Luis Alonso Amaya, told reporters that more than 1,500 incidents have been resolved, including 19 deaths, 521 temporarily blocked roads and 706 fallen trees, some of them large. Two of these trees caused the death of three people.

Civil Protection has set up 150 shelters to serve more than 6,000 people nationwide, of which 82 are active, providing protection to 2,582 people, including 1,212 minors.

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources’ Observatory reported that persistent rains continue to occur across the country, concentrating from the central zone to the eastern zone.

El Salvador Climate

Trees

Salvadoran authorities warned that there is still a very high probability, between 80 and 100%, of falling trees, which might cause damage to infrastructure and interruption of electricity service, especially in the coastal area and volcanic mountain range.

Low pressure

The Environment report added that a low pressure area located near the Bay of Campeche in Mexico has increased its probability of cyclonic development to 50%.

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