The rains in Honduras leave 16 dead and 34,073 affected since the end of September

Tegucigalpa.- The number of people killed by the rains in Honduras rose this Sunday to 16, while those affected exceed 34,000, reported civil protection and rescue organizations of the country, which maintains active alerts in 12 of the 18 departments. The latest victim is a 22-year-old man who died by drowning in a river in the village of San Juan del Rancho, east of Tegucigalpa, according to a report from the Honduran Fire Department. His body was recovered this Sunday by agents of the Fire Department, a day after being swept away by the current when he was trying to cross the river on his motorcycle. The other fifteen deaths, the majority by drowning, occurred since the end of September in various departments of the Central American country. The head of operations of the Risk and Contingency Management Secretariat, Luis Salinas, told reporters that the rainfall has affected 7,075 families - some 34,073 people -, several of them evacuated. In addition, 3,735 damaged homes and 87 totally destroyed are recorded.

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Salinas also reported that some 97 communities remain cut off, six bridges destroyed, one damaged, and 14 roads damaged and one destroyed. The rains of the last few hours have caused serious damage in several areas of Tegucigalpa, the capital, with flooded homes, landslides, and impassable streets. Precipitation is the product of the influence of a surface trough associated with a low-pressure system, located south of the Gulf of Fonseca (Pacific), which will generate abundant cloudiness in the afternoon and night, weak rains and showers, with electrical activity in most of the Honduran territory. Showers could be moderate to heavy in the west, south and central areas.