Tres muertos y nuevos estragos por inundaciones a causa de las intensas lluvias en Venezuela

Three people died in Venezuela's capital Caracas due to flooding caused by heavy rainfall overnight on August 15th. The overflowing embankments of some ravines surrounding the city were the primary cause of death. No information has been released about the number of injured individuals. Numerous homes were temporarily submerged by water.

Torrential rains also caused damage to infrastructure and crop damage in the states of Trujillo, Yaracuy, Amazonas, and Táchira. This natural disaster occurred just a month after a seismic doublet affected the country's capital on June 24th, which was the most devastating disaster in Venezuela's history, causing over 6,000 deaths, nearly 20,000 missing persons, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

In some areas of central Caracas, such as Santa Rosalía, nearly a hundred families lost their temporary shelters due to the rains, according to information from the Capital District Fire Department. Many people still sleeping in temporary shelters had to face severe weather conditions on August 15th night. On Bolivar Avenue in the city center, dozens of tents were flooded, affecting several families.

Chacao Municipality Police Chief Alberto Prato confirmed that two of the flood victims in the capital were teenagers aged 15 and 17, who were swept away by a surge in the La Vega neighborhood, southwest of the city. The third victim is a 49-year-old woman from the El Peñón sector in Macarao parish, another large shantytown in the southwest.

Her house was washed away by an unexpected surge in water currents. The rain also caused flooding and inundations in several central avenues of La Candelaria, San Bernardino, Petare, Antímano, Caricuao, and the Panamerican Highway. The Mayor of Baruta, Darwin González, declared an alert in the residential areas under his jurisdiction in the early hours of Sunday.

At this time, we are reinforcing teams to address the incidents caused by the intense rainfall in Caracas on August 16th. We are adding teams from the Ministry of Public Works and the Guaira Governor's office to our brigades.