Tropical Storm Sara left two dead and more than 120,000 affected in Honduras and another two dead in Nicaragua, after crossing northern Central America and weakening in southern Mexico, authorities reported this Monday.
After passing through Belize on Sunday, Sara was downgraded to a tropical depression and was “dissipating” southwest of Campeche (Mexico), according to the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC).
In Honduras, the most affected country in Central America, Sara left two dead, including a three-year-old child who was swept away by a river on Sunday, and affected 123,273 people.
More than 200 homes were destroyed and some 3,200 damaged, 1,794 communities were cut off due to river flooding, bridge collapses and road collapses. Extensive damage was also reported to agriculture, according to the Honduran civil protection agency, Copeco.
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In the rest of Central America, Nicaragua reported, in addition to the two fatalities, 5,000 people affected and some 1,800 homes flooded due to the flooding of 25 rivers.
Sara also affected Costa Rica, where rains in the two weeks before Sara formed left at least six dead and four missing.
In Costa Rica there were more than 54 intervals of land, flooding in the provinces of Guanacaste (northeast) and in the south of the Pacific coast. Almost 5,000 people were treated by emergency services.
In Guatemala and El Salvador the effects were minor.
