San Salvador. Six people died in El Salvador and Guatemala due to the heavy rains that have hit Central America since Saturday, authorities from both countries reported this Monday, also reporting thousands of people affected by floods and landslides.
In El Salvador, the most affected country, three people died underground this Monday due to the collapse of an earthen slope in the western district of Tacuba, department of Ahuachapán, the Police reported on the social network X.
The first fatality in El Salvador was recorded on Sunday after a tree and a pole fell on a car that was traveling on a highway in the capital. That same day, at night, Congress approved a state of emergency to facilitate the mobilization of resources.
The Ministry of the Environment announced that the rains will continue in the Salvadoran territory and asked the population to be alert due to “very high probability of loss and damage to infrastructure, as well as interruption in mobility and services.”
Three people died this Monday due to the collapse of an earthen slope in the western district of Tacuba, in El Salvador. Photo: La Prensa Gráfica.
In Guatemala, a 59-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man died on Sunday in the Chacayá village of the indigenous municipality of Sacapulas (west) when they were buried by a wall that collapsed due to rainfall, reported the institution in charge of protection. civil.
According to a report from the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC), rains will continue in Central America and southern Mexico because “a broad area of low pressure is forming over the Bay of Campeche.” .
“It is likely that a tropical depression or tropical storm will form by mid-week” on the west coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the scientific body warned.
Every year, the rainy season leaves dozens and even hundreds of deaths and extensive damage to infrastructure in Central America, one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change.
