Three drivers were trapped in a flooded street in the commune of Cerrillos, in the Metropolitan Region.
The emergency is taking place following Salvador Allende Avenue woke up flooded, between Antonio Escobar Williams and Las Américas streets. This area remains with interrupted traffic, as indicated by Transporte Informa through its Twitter account.
He Police Captain Luis Cofré Pérez, from the Cerrillos Sub-Commissioner, He indicated that work is currently being carried out together with a backhoe machine “with the purpose of rescuing the people who were on top of the vehicles and later the extraction of the cars.”
Until now the road remains completely flooded, and the reasons for the situation have not been clarified. However, Carabineros personnel asserted that it might be due to a broken matrix, and that this is being analyzed by the institutional center.