Dead as Julia drenches central America with rainfall
People affected by floods after the passage of Tropical Storm Julia, are evacuated by boat, in the municipality of Choloma, department of Cortes, Honduras, Oct. 10, 2022.
👉 Former Hurricane Julia has dissipated, but it is still drenching Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua.
At least 28 people were reported dead as a direct or indirect result of the storm.
Guatemala’s disaster prevention agency said five people died after a hillside collapsed on their house in Alta Verapaz province, burying them. And in Huehuetenango province, near Mexico, nine people died, including a soldier killed while performing rescue work.
Authorities in El Salvador said five Salvadoran army soldiers died and another was injured after a wall collapsed at a house where they sought refuge in the town of Comasagua. Hundreds of police and soldiers have been conducting anti-gang raids there.
Two other 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 died when he was swept away by a current, and another was killed when a tree fell on him.
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 died when she was swept away by currents, and three people died when their boat swamped or capsized in northern Honduras. A man in Nicaragua was killed by a falling tree.
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