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(Panama America) Eight dead, 1,500 people affected, the road closure Boyd Roosevelt and the cloth of the Centennial Bridge, is the balance of floods and landslides due to rains in the past 48 hours, the highest in 63 years.
Because of this bad weather, the Centre National Emergency Operations (COE) issued a “red alert” in the area east of the country.
The National System of Civil Protection (NSCP) recovered the bodies of two girls in Darien, reported missing after an accident in the boat they were traveling with her mother.
The other victims were in Columbus, after a landslide buried the house of Virgilio Gonzalez, 23, located in the area of Verbena. Similarly died in Portobelo Vicente Zapata, 50.
Chepo.
Hydrometeorological Forecasting Electricity Transmission Company SA (ETESA) reveal that the rains will continue for 48 hours, so the COE ordered the “mandatory evacuation” of 18 communities near the river to the Port Coquira Bayano in Chepo, where homes were covered by water.
500 thousand people were evacuated to five shelters located in schools and the Center Chepo General Cañitas Basic.
Furthermore, Colón-Panama Highway was closed and were allowed free transit by North and South corridors for mobilization in the emergency zones.
La Chorrera.
Despite the danger posed by the children of the community near the river Velásquez, which overflowed, played before the eyes of adults and without the presence of the authorities.
In Calle Larga, another of the areas close to the area, 10 houses were flooded by the overflowing of the river Caimito.
The same fate befell the inhabitants near the community of Mendoza, where the streets that connect to the water treatment plant of the Institute of Aqueducts and Sewage Systems were impassable.