Guatemala City/Prensa Latina
The number of deaths due to the rainy season (May-October) in Guatemala rose to 32, with 15 people injured, the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) reported today.
The entity registered 2,179 incidents in total, 15,196 victims, 29,461 evacuated, 9,817 people at risk and 978 sheltered.
He disclosed that there are 1,438 homes at risk, 823 with slight damage, 13,907 moderate and 426 severe, in addition to 61 schools affected, 754 roads, 17 buildings and 65 bridges, of which eight were destroyed.
The day before, a landslide in the Chuisalic village, San Bartolomé Jocotenango, department of Quiché, shocked the country, leaving seven people under tons of material that fell from a hillside.
In the early hours of this Friday, relief institutions located the bodies of three victims, while the search and rescue of those still buried continued.
Two were extracted, as another was trapped inside a backhoe and the instability of the terrain did not allow the process to remove it to be carried out, Conred said.
According to the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology, the environment continues to be humid and unstable and a monsoon trough leaves rain over the west, the bocacosta and Petén.
The entity called for maintaining the necessary precautions, because rainfall could cause lahars from the volcanic chain, sudden river flooding, flooding, mass movements or damage to the road network and infrastructure.
This era began in the nation at the beginning of June with the collapse, to date, of several of the main roads, as the most striking, and the collapse in a community, which caused the death of two children.
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, recently ratified his commitment to working to prevent more tragedies in the country, although Congress twice denied him the declaration of a State of Calamity to address emergencies.
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