Hurricane Julia, which gradually weakened when it reached Nicaragua early on Sunday, finally dissipated over Guatemala on Monday after leaving at least 26 dead and four missing in Central America, where it left destruction and floods in its wake, according to official reports. .
The United States Hurricane Center (CNH) said that Julia completely dissipated at 2100 GMT in western Guatemala, but stressed that its rains can still cause flooding in Central America and southern Mexico.
death of five soldiers
Five Salvadoran soldiers participating in the relief operations died some 30 kilometers southwest of the capital when a wall against which they had taken refuge from bad weather fell, said the Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro.
“At least two people died buried”, also due to the fall of a wall in Guatajiagua, located 150 km east of San Salvador, added the Salvadoran Police.
Finally, the Salvadoran minister, Raúl Juárez, reported two other deaths related to bad weather in the southwest of the country. A total of 10 people have died in El Salvador.
In Honduras, the mayor of Brus Laguna (west), Wilmer Wood, said two people drowned after their canoe capsized, swept away by waves raging from Julia’s rains. Another person has been missing since the accident.
In Guatemala, 14 people lost their lives. In the north of the country, five members of the same family were buried in the rubble of their house in an indigenous village where a landslide occurred, according to civil protection services (Conred).
Source: BFM TV
