At least 28 deceased leaves Julia’s way through Central America

Guatemala city –

At least 28 deaths, 14 of them in Guatemala, four in Honduras, nine in El Salvador, and thousands of victims have left the passage through Central America of storm Julia.

In the Guatemalan town of Panzós Alta Verapaz, in the north-central part of the country, five people died when they were buried by a landslide after a hillside detachment on their houses, and in the department of Huehuetenango nine people died, including a soldier who died crossing a river during rescue efforts.

So far, Julia’s passage through Guatemala has left 167,000 homes with power problems and a damaged hydroelectric plant, President Alejandro Giammattei told reporters, adding that Mexico has offered to supply power to some areas.

The Guatemalan government is preparing to declare a state of calamity throughout the territory, with which it is allowed to limit constitutional guarantees such as locomotion and establish sanitary cordons, as well as centralize aid.

The government ordered the deployment of civil and military personnel to support the victims and firefighters and the Red Cross are in the affected areas supporting the evacuation of hundreds of people. The Ministry of Education canceled classes and deported flights from the United States and Mexico to the Central American country were suspended until Wednesday.

According to official data Julia, which has already been degraded to a remnant, will cross the entire country towards the south of Mexico.

The Savior

In El Salvador, it made landfall on Sunday with heavy downpours and sustained winds of 70 kilometers per hour that caused rivers to overflow, trees to fall on highways and flooded city streets.

At least five soldiers died underground when the wall of a house collapsed where they were sheltering from the rain in the municipality of Comasagua, where for a week more than 2,000 soldiers and some 500 police officers have participated in a security fence to persecute gang members in the city. zone. Another soldier was injured.

The authorities also located a dead motorcyclist who was dragged by a current in the municipality of Amenia, department of Sonsonate. Next to the man was the motorcycle on which he was traveling.

n the Salvadoran municipality of Guatajiagua, in the east of the country, two people died after the collapse of a wall that destroyed their home, confirmed the National Civil Police.

Meanwhile, in a rural area of ​​the municipality of Caluco, western department of Sonsonate, a 72-year-old man died when a tree fell on his home, the director of Civil Protection, Luis Amaya, reported at a press conference. Two other people were injured in the same incident.

The heavy rainfall caused the overflow of the Rio Grande, one of the largest in the country, and the flooding of several homes in the Carrillo and Brisas del Río neighborhoods in the city of San Miguel, 135 kilometers from the capital, but no reports were made. victims because local authorities alerted them to the risk and most left the area.

Honduras

In Honduras, firefighters confirmed the rescue in the northern municipality of Choloma of the body of a 22-year-old woman who died on Saturday when she was swept away by the current of a river that swelled due to heavy rains. Likewise, the municipal authorities confirmed to AP the death of three people, a couple and a 4-year-old girl, when a canoe capsized in the northern municipality of Brus Laguna.

The director minister of the Honduran Social Investment Fund, Octavio Pineda Paredes, told local media that at least 193 municipalities and 973 highway sections were affected, and that the western, southern and El Paraíso departments remain on high alert. .

Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, Monday dawned clear and sunny in most of the affected regions, although it continued to rain in the departments of León and Chinandega, the last areas hit by Julia when leaving the national territory.

In Nicaragua, Monday dawned clear and sunny in most of the affected regions, although it continued to rain in the departments of León and Chinandega, the last areas hit by Julia when leaving the national territory.

The mayor of the northern department of Jinotega, Leónidas Centeno, reported that a 24-year-old man died on Sunday in the community of Las Latas when a tree fell on him.

The government maintains the state of red alert and for this Monday ordered to suspend classes in all public and private schools, colleges and universities. He also asked the population to take precautions due to the floods caused by the rain and the overflow of at least 78 rivers in different areas of the country.

The authorities have not offered a balance on the damage that occurred in the Caribbean town of Laguna de Perlas, where the hurricane hit with all its force early Sunday morning and was left without power and totally cut off.

In the Caribbean town of Bluefields, many people woke up repairing the roofs of their homes and clearing streets covered with logs and garbage. Residents said that the city was left without power because several trees fell on the power lines and the service has not been restored so far.

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