At least 800 people were affected due to the floods caused by the intense rainy that plague the Northeast ParaguayanThe National Emergency Secretariat (SEN) of that country reported this Saturday.
These figures correspond only to the town of Cerro Corá, in the department of Amambay, on the border with Brazil, one of the areas “most affected” by the floodsSEN minister Gladys Zunilda Borja told NPY.
Rescue and aid teams are deployed in the sector in coordination with local authorities to provide assistance to those affected, Borja said.
“We have deployed 25 operational personnel, three speeders and five large trucks with food for humanitarian aid,” he added.
So far there is no record of loss of life or disappearance, he said.
The towns of Sargento José Félix López, Yvy Ya’u and Bella Vista are also under floodsalthough there are still no reports on the number of people affected, he said.
The authorities have reported the isolation of other communities, several of them indigenous, after the overflow of various water channels in the area, including the Aquidabán River.
The rainy They were registered in several areas of the country during the afternoon and night of Thursday, and the authorities reported the collapse of several bridges.
The press released a video of tactical agents from the Paraguayan Army’s Joint Task Force (FTC) rescuing four indigenous people who were trapped on a small island that was affected by the rise in water from the Aquidabán River.
For his part, The Ministry of Public Works and Communications assured that it is working in the “critical zones” to enable routes to isolated places.
“The most serious problems in the mentioned points consisted of: collapse of bridges, floodscollapse of sewer slopes, isolation of communities and roadblocks,” the ministry said in a statement.
In addition, a group of 50 families were evacuated from an area near the Acaraymi stream, in the border city of Ciudad del Este, after the Paraná River flooded, Gerardo Soria, from Itaipu’s Department of Social Responsibility, informed Telefuturo.
“We are preparing two shelters for people who have nowhere to take their personal belongings,” Soria commented.
