Las fatalities due to recent rains, landslides and floods that have occurred in Bolivia, since the beginning of the rainy season, they reach 11 according to the latest report provided this Tuesday by the authorities in the country.
The most recent case is that of a 13-year-old teenager in the eastern city of Santa Cruz, who fell into a drainage canal and is considered unable to be saved due to the force of the water that dragged him several kilometers, according to a preliminary report. of the Firefighters. The Vice Minister of Civil Defense, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, told the media that the tenth victim was a shepherd who was struck by lightning in the western region of La Paz.
Calvimontes commanded the relief efforts this day in the municipality of Colcapirhua, a neighbor of Cochabamba (center), where the overflow of a river due to the obstruction of a drainage channel, which affected several homes and businesses in the area, and no injuries were reported.
On Sunday four people, including two minors, died from the slip and collapse of a mass of land that crushed his homein an event in the Tropic region of Cochabamba.
The other deaths correspond to the beginning of the rainy season in the country a month ago and include three deaths in the southern region of Chuquisaca, one in La Paz and one in Tarija. In Chuquisaca at the beginning of November, two people died, swept away by a river that rose due to the rains in the town of Presto, in addition to a 14-year-old teenager who was struck by lightning while herding sheep in a rural district of the city of Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia. In Tarija, an older adult died crushed by a wall that fell as a result of a flood, and in La Paz there was the case of a 5-year-old girl who was buried in a mud flood that occurred in the Bajo Llojeta neighborhood, after a heavy rain for more than a week.
Likewise, the Bolivian authorities identified more than 200 families affected due to the recent natural disasters in the country.
