More areas of El Salvador, Central America affected by climate change (French)
The number of those killed by the torrential rains that swept through Central America last Wednesday morning to about eighty thousand and 150 people affected, they lost their homes and crops.
El Salvador was the most affected countries in the region in terms of the number of deaths rose to 32, is expected to grow worse the weather, officials said.
The rains caused mudslides and destruction in the main streets and isolated villages, and thousands of families lost their homes and crops in an area classified by the United Nations as the most affected by climate change.
In a letter addressed to the people, the President said that El Salvador Mauricio Fens before the real test, pointing out that the displacement of some twenty thousand and isolate areas completely because of damage to roads.
The death toll in Honduras to 13 and driven 31 thousand in the period from Thursday to Sunday when heavy rains turned the tables small to floods, which declared a state of emergency in the south of the country.
In Nicaragua, authorities said eight people were killed and declared a state of high alert in the northern part of the country.
Nearly three children the first Saturday in Colombia by the floods, according to officials.The mudslides swept away six people from the mountain road on Sunday in the province of Choco on the border with Panama.
In Guatemala, have fallen 28 and damaged more than 110 thousand people, according to President Colom Afro, who declared a state of emergency, and explained that the majority of the incidents took place Saturday in the province of Guatemala.
The United Nations Central America one of the areas most affected by the effects of climate change. Natural disasters in 40 years killed more than 50 thousand people, and the loss of tens of millions of dollars in damage, according to university studies of European and Latin American.
Source: Agencies
The number of those killed by the torrential rains that swept through Central America last Wednesday morning to about eighty thousand and 150 people affected, they lost their homes and crops.
El Salvador was the most affected countries in the region in terms of the number of deaths rose to 32, is expected to grow worse the weather, officials said.
The rains caused mudslides and destruction in the main streets and isolated villages, and thousands of families lost their homes and crops in an area classified by the United Nations as the most affected by climate change.
In a letter addressed to the people, the President said that El Salvador Mauricio Fens before the real test, pointing out that the displacement of some twenty thousand and isolate areas completely because of damage to roads.
The death toll in Honduras to 13 and driven 31 thousand in the period from Thursday to Sunday when heavy rains turned the tables small to floods, which declared a state of emergency in the south of the country.
In Nicaragua, authorities said eight people were killed and declared a state of high alert in the northern part of the country.
Nearly three children the first Saturday in Colombia by the floods, according to officials.The mudslides swept away six people from the mountain road on Sunday in the province of Choco on the border with Panama.
In Guatemala, have fallen 28 and damaged more than 110 thousand people, according to President Colom Afro, who declared a state of emergency, and explained that the majority of the incidents took place Saturday in the province of Guatemala.
The United Nations Central America one of the areas most affected by the effects of climate change. Natural disasters in 40 years killed more than 50 thousand people, and the loss of tens of millions of dollars in damage, according to university studies of European and Latin American.
Source: Agencies