13 dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall
Key Points(5)
- Thirteen people were reported dead as a direct or indirect result of the storm.
- Guatemala's <a href="https://www.un-spider.org/guatemalan-coordinating-agency-disaster-reduction-conred">disaster prevention agency</a> said five people in Alta Verapaz province died after a hillside collapsed on their house burying them.
- Police said two people died in the eastern El Salvador town of Guatajiagua after heavy rains caused a wall of their home to collapse.
- Another man in El Salvador and one in Nicaragua died when trees fell on them.
- Rivers overflowed their banks and El Salvador declared a state of emergency and opened 80 storm shelters.
Now a tropical depression, former Hurricane Julia drenched Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua.
Thirteen people were reported dead as a direct or indirect result of the storm.
Guatemala's disaster prevention agency said five people in Alta Verapaz province died after a hillside collapsed on their house burying them.
Police said two people died in the eastern El Salvador town of Guatajiagua after heavy rains caused a wall of their home to collapse.
Another man in El Salvador and one in Nicaragua died when trees fell on them.
Rivers overflowed their banks and El Salvador declared a state of emergency and opened 80 storm shelters.
In neighboring Honduras, a 22-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man died after they were swept away by currents, and two people died when their boat swamped or capsized in northern Honduras.
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