Number deceased It rose to 43 on Saturday due to a landslide in Las Tejerías in central Venezuela. That’s seven more than yesterday, according to the latest balance presented this Tuesday from the flood-affected area by Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. In a televised intervention, the official updated the total death toll minutes after President Nicolás Maduro put the dead at 39 and the missing at 56 amid the president’s meeting with several ministers from Caracas. “We’re reaching almost a hundred deaths,” Maduro said. 56 people are officially reported missing He said that they were wanted by his relatives and various rescue teams operating in the region. The President announced a bonus for the residents of the town, which is located about 70 kilometers from Caracas, where 23 industries and about 10,000 families were affected, and about a thousand people lost their homes.
Maduro reported yesterday during his Las Tejerías tour, “More than 60 lost“Due to the flooding of streams in this small city in the state of Aragua, which has been declared a disaster and natural disaster area by the government. Two shelters close to the affected area, and a number of other groups of people not specified by the official, have accepted free housing offered by the Executive in other states within a distance of up to 400 kilometers.
Meanwhile, Rodriguez continued to explain that work is progressing in some sectors to remove debris and restore water and electricity supplies, but that this task will continue in the coming days. “We continue to search (for the missing), the search has not stopped, relatives are there,” said the Vice President.
The rainfall recorded in the last three weeks in Venezuela caused flooding in half of the country, as well as landslides, thousands of people lost their homes partially or completely, and 20 lives were lost, except for the Las Tejerías landslide.
Social networks
Relatives of the disappeared moved the search for survivors to social networks like Twitter, where photos and desperate calls proliferate to those who can provide some information. The search for the missing isn’t just concentrated in the affected area, their relatives and friends are posting images of identity documents, family photos, and any signs of loved ones to other people, hoping someone knows something. . Many of these messages have been repeated by journalists and influencers, and together they hope to find an answer or a clue that doesn’t have to be under the rubble and mud already stuck in the Las Tejerías community, making the job even harder. hard. follow-up.
Ender Segovia is one of those who are aware of social networks, but recently moved to Las Tejerías, about 70 kilometers from Caracas, to support his family in search of his 56-year-old uncle José Segovia. He could not be taken out of his house on Saturday afternoon. They found their one-year-old cousin already dead inside the house, unable to leave the house when the river ran through the community. “Everyone is searching day and night to see if there is any living thing. People are walking on the roofs of the houses, walk in ours“There might be people stranded there,” said the man. “Segovia, like many others affected by this disaster, believes that the number of missing has exceeded the official figure, and warns that as the hours pass, the chances of finding their missing relatives dwindle. Even though there are living relatives, “hope is the last thing to lose.
At the disaster site, public and private organizations, international organizations, students, rescuers, family members and organized individuals are mobilizing what they hope to support 10,000 families in 23 sectors affected by the overflowing streams. “The work is challenging because the affected area is so large,” Nelson Suniaga, a firefighter from the Central University of Venezuela, who spent several hours in the mud in this small city in Aragua state, told EFE. He explained that survivor support and missing-seeking days were conducted “together” between state officials and volunteers, in a deployment of more than 3,000 people, according to the government.
savior’s statements solidarity, which in his view is abundant in the regionBecause of the magnitude of the disaster, everyone who arrives starts off in no particular order by attending to a family’s request or to the trail of a “characteristic scent.” “Here’s the thing, search, search, search until you find it. We dug all day where they told us, where something was supposed to be, where there was a characteristic odor, but we couldn’t find anyone,” Suniaga said.