The Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires, where Bahía Blanca is located, said in a statement that he received more than 100 reports of missing people after the storm that devastated this city, which houses one of the main ports in the country
A strong that hit Bahía Blanca on last Friday resulted in the deaths of at least 16 people and left more than 1,400 dislocated residents. The mayor of the city, Federico Susbielles, reported during a press conference on Sunday (9), that damage to local infrastructure is estimated at approximately US $ 400 million, which is equivalent to $ 2.3 billion.
The Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires, where Bahía Blanca is located, said in a statement that he received more than 100 reports of missing persons after the storm that devastated this city, which houses one of the main ports in the country. They also indicated that approximately 1,450 people were forced to leave their homes.
So far the disappearance of two girls has been confirmed, who have been carried out by a stream of water in a matter of seconds, a case that moves Argentina society. The mother tried to transfer the 1 and 5 -year -old girls from her car to a truck that helped them when she filled her dragged them for about 350 meters.
With the vehicle’s stop, they climbed on the roof to protect themselves, but another wave took them in seconds, told Buenos Aires Security Minister Javier Alonso to the local station Radio Miter. The mother “managed to leave about 1,200 meters” away from there, said Alonso. In this area, the search for children with divers and water equipment is being pursued because there is still more than one meter of water.
In the late afternoon, Alonso confirmed that they found the lifeless body of the man who had tried to help his mother and his daughters of his truck. “A large part of the deceased are … very elderly people who were in nursing homes or homes who take care of the elderly,” Mayor Susbielles said in a press conference after confirming the 15 deaths. Eleven have already been identified and the city does not rule out the possibility of more deaths in this city of 350,000 inhabitants.
Millionaire
The city’s reconstruction will cost “no less than 400 billion pesos,” or about $ 400 million, estimated Susbielles. “Today we need (of help) more than ever.” In turn, the national government authorized a help of 10 billion pesos (R $ 54.19 billion) to repair damage.
The rains started on Friday morning and stopped in the afternoon, but 400 millimeters of water fell during the phenomenon, practically the same amount of rain in one year in the region. The mayor said the rescue teams lost response capacity when the Maldonado stream, which divides Bahía Blanca, overflowed on Friday morning.
Water “made us lose almost 70% of our operational capacity, we lost ambulances, patrols, furniture, pickup trucks,” he said. They were “difficult, eternal moments.” Integer neighborhoods were submerged, revealing only the roofs of the houses. The water level has reached two meters in some areas of this port city, located 600 km south of the Argentine capital, whose routes and access bridges were affected, flooded or destroyed.
*Report produced with the aid of AI and AFP
Posted by Carol Santos
