SANTIAGO.- Thousands of rice tasks razed in dajabón, a dead man dragged by two rivers in Bonao and Dozens of flooded homes In the city of Santiago, it was the balance until Saturday afternoon, of the rainfall that has been happening in much of the country since last Wednesday night.
In this city, despite sudden floods, no human damage had been reported, but serious inconveniences in vehicular traffic.
From Bonao, it was reported that life -threatening lifeguards rescued yesterday the body of a man who had been dragged by a flood of the Yuna and Masipedro rivers.
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The deceased could not be identified due to lack of documents, while the legisto doctor acting in the case ruled his death due to immersion suffocation.
While in the province of Dajabón, great floods were reported both in the urban and rural area and the fruit of the overflow of the Massacre River, which even destroyed part of the channel that Haitian citizens had built in the part of Haiti.
Also, thousands of land tasks planted with rice were razed.
“I had never seen a flood as strong as that now of the Masacre River, which in addition to passing over the bridge of the Codevi Free Zone, affected thousands of rice tasks,” said Ramón Pichardo, rice producer.
The rice farms damaged by the rains are located in the Vigía, El Coco, Sanchez and Cañongo.
There were great floods in the community of Juana Méndez.
Official organizations still do not have an evaluation of the damage caused by the rains in both dajabón and in other provinces of central Cibao such as Espaillat (Moca), La Vega, Duarte and Bonao.
