Amanda, the first storm to come from the Pacific this year, killed at least 18 people in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, a country where another seven people were missing on Monday. Rescuers were trying to locate them under landslides and mudslides caused by torrential rains and high winds that hit El Salvador the previous day, said Interior Minister Mario Duran. "We have fifteen dead and seven missing," he said in the press.
El Salvador was the country hardest hit by Amanda, which caused floods, landslides and power outages when approaching neighboring countries in Central America. The remnants of the storm reached Guatemala later Sunday, where two people died, said disaster coordinator David de Leon. One of them, a nine-year-old boy, was swept away by the flow of a flooded river, while the second victim was killed by the collapse of a house northeast of Guatemala City. Another person died in Honduras.
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, declared a 15-day state of emergency. According to him, the storm caused damage estimated at 20 million dollars. Some 200 homes were damaged, said William Hernandez of Emergency Preparedness and many areas lack electricity and potable water. In addition, 7,225 people were evacuated and transferred by the military and Civil Protection to 154 shelters spread across the country.
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