The flood registered on January 31, 2022 leaves a balance of 200 people affected. The death toll rose to 14.
Gustavo Tigse says that he lived through one of the hardest nights of his life. “There are no words to explain the pain we are feeling because we don’t know anything,” he says, explaining that a relative of his, Juan Vicente Tingo, 58, does not appear.
The alluvium — registered at 6:00 p.m. on January 31, 2022 — took it away and they have not heard anything. Gustavo is one of the 200 affected from the av. the gasca, a neighborhood in the north center of Quito that woke up this February 1 among rubble, water, mud and the uncertainty of those who cannot find their loved ones or those who have lost them. Preliminarily, there are 14 deadnine disappeared and more than 30 wounded.
search work
Henry Silva, chief of operations of the Fire Department of Quito, pointed out that they have worked all night and that the last body to be found was registered at 11:00 p.m. The debris they reach two meters in height and it is among these rubble that the disappeared are searched for.
At 08:00, the Municipality of Quito has reported, an overflight of the area will be carried out. Meanwhile, the people cover themselves with the blankets that they were able to rescue from their houses or those that other neighbors have given them; panela water, coffee and laundry are shared to cope with the nine degrees of temperature with which the capital woke up.
Jairo Rodríguez, a resident of the sector, says that hours have passed in uncertainty. His sister-in-law Melany Alejandra Panoluisa, 17, does not appear. Her and her parents alluvium dragged them, they were found but nothing is known about the young woman. (AVV)
This is how the sector dawns #LaGasca after the flood???? from January 31, 2022.
Via: @Dluarahi pic.twitter.com/wSA5bvO0wo
– The Ecuador Time (@lahoraecuador) February 1, 2022
