Due to heavy rains, homes collapse and landslides are recorded in Santa Marta

Due to heavy rains, homes collapse and landslides are recorded in Santa Marta
Due to heavy rains, homes collapse and landslides are recorded in Santa Marta

Santa Marta

Since Friday afternoon, rain was recorded in different areas of the capital of Magdalena and according to the District Office for Risk and Climate Change Management (Ogric)four emergencies due to housing collapse were reported and attended to.

He head of the Ogric, Alex Velázquezsaid that “we have had circumstances derived from the increase in rain that influenced the collapse of homes in the neighborhood. Villa Bethel in Gaira where four families were affected and also two homes in El Pando.”

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Likewise, citizens reported through videos and photographs landslides on the roads leading to the Taganga and El Rodadero sectors.

It is important to highlight that the dimar noticed the presence of heavy rain and wind during the weekend in the Colombian Caribbean and what impact it would have on the departments of Bolívar, Atlántico, Magdalena, La Guajira and the archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia

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