Torrential rains that hit much of Bolivia have resulted in the deaths of 13 people and the destruction of some 1,000 families, according to the official count released yesterday, Sunday.
"We have over 1,000 affected families, 13 people dead," the Vice Minister of Civil Protection, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, told public radio and television."[/p
Calvimontes noted that the situation in Santa Cruz province (east) is "very critical" as the Ichilo, Grande and Pirai rivers have overflowed, flooding residential areas and farmland with cereal and oil crops.
In the community of San Julian, 32 people whom authorities cannot otherwise reach are expected to be evacuated by air in the coming hours, he added. Calvimontes.
The Bolivian national weather service issued an emergency warning for torrential rains in the provinces of Potosi, Chuquisaca and Tarija, in the south.
Television networks in the country broadcast footage showing swollen and overflowing rivers in La Paz, the capital, and Cochabamba.
Source: RES
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