The minor died due to a landslide over her house located in the Agua Zarca canton, in the Santo Tomás district, in San Salvador Sur.
The director of Civil Protection, Luis Amaya, reported that the rainfall today is more intense than in previous days with some places such as Apaneca, in which the rain gauges registered accumulations close to 700 millimeters.
While the girl’s body has already been rescued, on social media the victim’s neighbors are asking for support for two older adults who allegedly also lived at the scene of the accident.
According to authorities, other accident victims and two children who died on June 10, due to a landslide on the island of Meanguera del Golfo, in La Unión, are excluded from the list, with which the death toll due to rain would reach 15.
The rainfall decreased in intensity on Tuesday and Wednesday, but this Thursday from the early morning hours it increased and in this capital it does not stop raining, sometimes fine drizzles. but on other occasions intensely. The government has prepared about 90 shelters and in 74 of them more than 2,200 people have been evacuated.
Accidents and landslides occurred in several places in the country. In the center of the capital, the driver of a minibus was injured after a large tree fell on his vehicle, and a man was rescued by the Salvadoran Red Cross after being trapped by a rockfall in Zaragoza.
During the day, the Ministry of Education confirmed that more than 400 schools were damaged, while the red alert remains in place in 16 districts and the orange alert in another 18.
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