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Nearly 100 die as storm hits El Salvador

Source: The Guardian

Nov 09, 2009

Summary

• At least 60 missing after floods and mud slides
• Louisiana emergency as hurricane Ida threatens

Nearly 100 people have been killed by floods and mud slides in El Salvador after a weekend of heavy rains driven by hurricane Ida. The country's interior minister, Humberto Centeno, said 91 people had died and at least 60 were missing. About 7,000 more are in shelters.

"Up until noon there have been, sadly, 91 deaths in all five [affected] provinces. There are 60 people missing in just the province of San Vicente," Centeno told reporters.

He said rescue workers were still struggling to reach some of the worst affected areas because of damage to roads. "We have been through disaster zones, including a fly-over of Verapaz [in San Vicente]," he said. "It is a real tragedy there."

The capital, San Salvador, was the hardest hit region, with 61 people reported dead, including a family of two adults and two children who were killed when a mud slide buried their home , a Red Cross spokesman, Carlos López Mendoza, said. Central San Vicente province was also badly affected, wi

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