Ecuador: Winter Storms Hit Hard 16 Provinces with rain, flooding

ELCOMERCIO.COM reported that six people were trapped by a landslide in Loja, amid heavy rain, are the latest victims of the winter. The tragedy occurred at 01:00 on Friday and caused pain in neighboring Sierra Nevada sector in South lojana capital. A landslide came off the top and destroyed the room where eight people were sleeping. Of these, only two brothers of 20 and 16, were saved. In another adjacent room, four people were saved. The dead are Johana, 50, and their children Johana, Evelyn, Gabriela, Daniela Assumption Lanche, and his grandson Joshua Ayora, all minors. A more human losses, Loja also experienced the ravages of what was the worst rainfall this winter at dawn yesterday. Such tragedies caused by the effects of winter have already claimed the lives of 33 people so far this year. Landslides, floods and overflows and flooding rivers are scenarios that have lived in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, El Oro, Guayas, Los Rios, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Imbabura, Bolivar, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Napo, Morona, Loja, Azuay and Orellana.

0 Several essays ecuador@elcomercio.com 27 March 2015 20:58 Six people were trapped by a landslide in Loja, amid heavy rain, are the latest victims of the winter. The tragedy occurred at 01:00 on Friday and caused pain in neighboring Sierra Nevada sector in South lojana capital. A landslide came off the top and destroyed the room where eight people were sleeping. Of these, only two brothers of 20 and 16, were saved. In another adjacent room, four people were saved. The dead are Johana, 50, and their children Johana, Evelyn, Gabriela, Daniela Assumption Lanche, and his grandson Joshua Ayora, all minors. A more human losses, Loja also experienced the ravages of what was the worst rainfall this winter at dawn yesterday. Such tragedies caused by the effects of winter have already claimed the lives of 33 people so far this year. Landslides, floods and overflows and flooding rivers are scenarios that have lived in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, El Oro, Guayas, Los Rios, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Imbabura, Bolivar, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Napo, Morona, Loja, Azuay and Orellana. The first events caused by heavy rains occurred since Friday in Bolivar, Los Rios and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. The latter province was affected by about 40 landslides that blocked maintain the Alóag route, linking the coast with the Sierra. Landslides, which mainly affected the parish of Alluriquiín (in Tsáchila land) were the cause to talk about an area emergency. The orange alert decreed by the National Secretariat for Risk Management (SNGR) to Santo Domingo, a part of Pichincha and Cotopaxi effect since last Thursday 26. President Rafael Correa announced yesterday that the Alóag satellite will not open until you end the cleaning and emergency. One of the first actions that runs from the effective date of this resolution is the evacuation of the residents of the parish Alluriquín. There’s homes that are settled on slopes and hills suffering from constant landslides, according to the prefecture. At the moment there are 281 families evacuated to shelters Tsáchila Coliseum. On this site receive food provided by the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion. Heavy rains in the last 24 hours also caused flooding in the Sierra Center.

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Rainfall yesterday in the canton La Maná (Cotopaxi), caused the flooding of several houses of Miraflores, La Playita, La Playa, Calabi villages. In Bolívar temporarily lowered intensity. The rain fell and the flow of the river Dulcepamba Chinguel returns to its natural course. The COE Chillanes Canton, ended the state of emergency. But until last Tuesday some communities still cut off, plus 30 landslides along the road that connects Guaranda with Babahoyo, obstructing the passage. The routes of the province are enabled but the passage is closed at night as a precaution. In one of these pathways, died Luis Muñoz, operator of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works. He removed the debris from the satellite Balzapamba with a backhoe, when slippage reached out and slid 200 meters to the river.

The sea also altered In the province of Santa Elena, the ravages of strong waves that hit its shores afternoon and Thursday night, lasted until yesterday. On Thursday, the sea claimed the lives of three people, a merchant of 27 years and two children aged 13 and 15 years. Angel Huebla, Pallatanga, drowned while bathing with other people. It occurred about 15:00. The villagers told yesterday that the deceased was dragged by the sea and although at first he was rescued, the strong waves drag him back to shore. In the commune Montañita, one of the busiest beaches in the country, yet intense waves pounded hard until past noon yesterday. To safeguard the safety of swimmers, buoys were placed 80 meters from the beach. The waves also affected about 50 families, on the coast of Esmeraldas, near the beach of San Francisco del Cabo, Muisne. According to witnesses the waves reached five meters. Read Article