The ravages of the heavy rains left a child dead and more than 20 houses affected by the downpours and landslides that occurred this Sunday in the town center of Valencia de la Paz, a rural region of the municipality of Iquira, Huila.
Jaime Toro, councilor of Iquira, affirmed that “a tragedy happened to us because we have a child buried by landslides and more than 20 houses with collateral damage due to rains.”
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“Water fell on us all Saturday night and early this Sunday,” added the councilman.
The deceased child was identified as José Mauricio Guaguas Barrios, 5 years old, a preschool student in Iquira, a municipality in western Huila located about 2 hours by car from Neiva.
Witnesses pointed out that a huge landslide fell on the house of the parents of the child “who slept in his bed, and died instantly.”
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“Everything was fast, nothing could be done by the minor’s parents to save him,” they said.
Added to the previous damage is the state of risk in which 80 families live in a settlement in the town center of Valencia de la Paz, where its inhabitants affirmed that “we expect help from the national government and the government of Huila.”
The rains also affected the Iquira aqueduct, as well as the roads in the villages of San Francisco, Río Iquira and Chaparro, which remain cut off from the urban area.
(In other news: Landslide in Manizales leaves 3 dead, including a child and his grandfather)
The mayor of Iquira, Yadnolver Correa Tamayo, meets this Sunday with the emergency committee to study the declaration of public calamity due to winter wave.
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