A tree fell on a car due to rain in El Salvador (left) and a fire broke out in Turkey (right)
San Salvador/Ankara: Somewhere the fury of nature and somewhere sudden disaster has caused devastation. In the Central American country El Salvador, where 6 more people died on Friday due to heavy rains and landslides, the total death toll reached 19, while 11 people died due to a massive fire in Turkey. It is being told that the number of people who have lost their lives in the incidents of wall collapse and landslides in the outskirts of the capital of El Salvador has reached 19 so far.
Tropical cyclone Alberto has developed due to two weather conditions in the Pacific coast of Guatemala and the Gulf of Mexico and due to its effect heavy rains are falling in southern Mexico and Central America. Civil protection officials of El Salvador have issued a ‘red alert’ due to heavy rains, while top officials have declared a national emergency for 15 days. The country’s Civil Protection Department said that six people, including two girls aged five and seven, died when a house collapsed. The department has warned residents about the danger of landslides and said that there is a danger of walls collapsing due to water accumulation due to rain. Salvadoran authorities have prepared 150 shelters across the country, out of which 2,582 people, including 1,212 minors, are living in 82 shelters.
11 people died in a fire in Türkiye
A crop fire in southeastern Turkey spread to settlements overnight, killing 11 people and injuring dozens. In neighboring Greece, authorities evacuated several villages south of Athens and in the southern Peloponnese region because of wildfires. The fire in Turkey broke out in an area between the provinces of Diyarbakir and Mardin. Diyarbakir Governor Ali Ihsan Su said winds quickly spread the blaze to the villages of Koksalan, Yazcicegi and Bagacik but the fire was brought under control by Friday morning. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca posted on the social media platform X that 11 people were killed and about 80 others needed treatment, six of them in critical condition. June (AP)
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