The preliminary census in Campo de la Cruz showed 40 homes affected in just one of the four neighborhoods where floods were recorded. The water level reached the knees inside the humble homes.
Local authorities used motor pumps to evacuate the water while they continue to carry out the census of the victims who lost belongings and damage to their homes, some unroofed and others due to the appearance of cracks.
“We have been responding to the emergency with motor pumps and we can assure you that we have already managed to evacuate the water that was inside the homes. “Now we are working on completing the census of the affected families,” he indicated. Randy Dominguezhousing secretary of Campo de la Cruz.
In turn, the victims assure that The floods were caused by the works on a road that is paralyzed.
“Since 2022, paving works on this project began but We do not know why there has been no work in the last year“The project is paralyzed and with the rains of the last few hours, flooding occurred in a dozen homes,” he said. Armando Orozcoleader of Campo de la Cruz.
In other towns such as Usiacuri, a stream overflowed and landslide near the Santo Domingo de Guzmán church. Likewise, the Undersecretary of Attention and Disaster Prevention of the Atlantic has a report of damages in the municipality of Sabanalarga.
On this Sunday morning, the Soledad fire department, in the company of the Civil Defense, reactivated the search for the body of Raul Valenciathe 51-year-old man, who fell into the Salao stream in the Villa Estadio neighborhood.
According to the version given by witnesses, The man was apparently intoxicated. and he approached the canal, lost his balance and was carried away by the furious current of the stream.
IDEAM issued an orange alert due to the risk of landslides in several areas of the Caribbean region.
The greatest threats arise in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta due to increased rainfall during the last week in the area. Likewise, there is a risk of emergencies in the southern cone of Córdoba, Bolívar and Cesar.
For the moment, the entity rules out the risk of sudden floods in the region’s rivers.
