After the avalanche caused on Friday afternoon by the strong winter in the municipality of San Pablo, north of Nariño, The relief agencies restarted in the early hours of this Saturday the search for a minor who has been missing since Friday afternoon.
One of the many videos recorded in the winter emergency registered in this town with 13,000 inhabitants, shows the moment in which the father of the 8-year-old girl carries her and then enters her into the vehicle, but moments later the car is dragged by the strong current, amid the screams and cries of their relatives and neighbors.
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The mayor of the municipality, Ricardo Emiro Gómez Lasso, when presenting a first assessment of the emergency caused by the overflow of the La Brisa creek, confirmed the unfortunate fact.
“We regret the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, it is the most negative and disastrous balance of this situation,” he said, adding that relief entities such as Civil Defense and the Volunteer Fire Department are in the continuous search for the minor.
According to the official’s explanation, “the La Brisa creek was dammed at some point along its route and later comes loaded with a large amount of plant material, rocks and mud and reaches the Provivienda, Balcones del Mayo, Villa Cristina, Los Samanes neighborhoods that They are the most affected.”
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More than 100 families that were affected were located in the covered coliseum of the Normal Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in said locality, where they spent their first night after the avalanche occurred.
We hope to make a census of the damage caused in this emergency, I appreciate the support of the mayors who have given us their support
The official stated that the material damage is substantial and that around 350 homes were seriously affected, while the aqueduct also suffered from the effects of winter.
“We hope to make a census of the damage caused in this emergency, I appreciate the support of the mayors who have given us their support with dump trucks and tank cars,” he said.
Starting at 8 am today in San Pablo, the Governor of Nariño, Jhon Rojas, installed the Unified Command Post, accompanied by members of the Municipal Risk Management Council and the National and Departmental Risk Management Unit, as well as representatives of the Municipal Mayor’s Office, National Police and relief agencies.
The sectional president reported that in addition to San Pablo, the municipalities of Los Andes, Santacruz and Túquerres are experiencing a delicate situation as a result of the winter wave and maintained that “from the Government of Nariño we coordinate actions to assist the affected families.”
Other emergencies attended
Regarding the other emergencies caused by the winter that the authorities are attending, it was indicated that in the municipality of Santacruz there was a landslide on the road that leads from the urban area to the Balalaica village, for which the passage of vehicles was enabled. for a single lane.
Meanwhile, in the municipality of Los Andes, a landslide was also registered in the Travesía Alta village, which so far has left 22 families affected and the closure of the road that connects the head with the Carrizal village.
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In Túquerres, another large landslide was reported on the road that leads from Junín to El Pedregal, where there is restricted passage of vehicles in a single lane.
Another of the roads affected in the department is the one that joins the municipalities of Túquerres with Samaniego, where at kilometer 5+400 there was a landslide that for several hours prevented the passage of all kinds of vehicles.
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